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During a Theology of the Body and the Interior Life course, while Father Gallagher was kindly signing my book--Me: I was thinking Father, when you become canonized, I will have a third class relic from you.
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“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
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“God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.”
― Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
― Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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