Gertrude the Great quotes

“Property -- the more common it becomes the more holy it becomes.”
-- Gertrude the Great

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“I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God”
-- Gertrude the Great

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“Every time we look at the Blessed Sacrament our place in heaven is raised forever.”
-- Gertrude the Great

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“Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly!”
-- Gertrude the Great

Source : St Gertrude the Great (2009). “The Life and Revelations of Saint Gertrude the Great”, p.112, TAN Books

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“Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown... Man should always firmly believe that God sends just that trial which is most beneficial for him.”
-- Gertrude the Great

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“Let the soul who is desirous of advancing in perfection hasten to My Sacred Heart.”
-- Gertrude the Great

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“Angels constantly guard the clients of this Blessed Virgin from the assaults of Hell.”
-- Gertrude the Great

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“It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished they can do no harm.”
-- Gertrude the Great

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“Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.”

Source : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.10, World Scientific

“Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.”

“Dreams grow holy put in action.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.111

“The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.”

“The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.”

“The same Holy Spirit who implants faith within a life implants the boldness to verbalize that faith.”

“Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.”

“I believe any time you have the courage to stand for what is right, especially in situations where no one else is willing to do so, you are creating a holy place.”

“The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.”

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