Mary Potter quotes
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“When I was praying there was a Presence - I saw nothing and yet Our Lord Crucified seemed present for a few instants.”
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“Show so clearly that this matter is God's work, not mine.”
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“I cannot but feel I have had a call from God to devote myself to help save souls in their last hour..... I have been drawn so strongly to pray for the dying and I believe it to be a work appointed for me, perpetual prayer for the dying.”
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“The day that I can no longer receive Our Lord in Holy Communion, Our Lord Himself will come to take me.”
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“You who have never “been there†in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of the grieving spouse: the scattered thoughts, the constant worry that we will forget something or someone in our fog-induced state, that strange feeling of not quite “being all there†when out in social situations, the pall that covers everything, like a cloak of sadness that never lifts.”
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“You who have never “been there” in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of the grieving spouse: the scattered thoughts, the constant worry that we will forget something or someone in our fog-induced state, that strange feeling of not quite “being all there” when out in social situations, the pall that covers everything, like a cloak of sadness that never lifts.”
-- Mary Potter
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“I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.”
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“Misery leads to crime. I saw so many boys whipped it ruined my mind.”
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“They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.”
Source : Adam Clarke (1831). “Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace”, p.146
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“When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers