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“Meeting one of her “daughters” in passing, she would ask:
“Are you working outwardly?”
And if the child replied, “I am doing my best to work inwardly, Mother,” she would go on her way satisfied.”
― Bernadette and Lourdes: The Whole Inspiring Story of Our Lady of Lourdes
“Are you working outwardly?”
And if the child replied, “I am doing my best to work inwardly, Mother,” she would go on her way satisfied.”
― Bernadette and Lourdes: The Whole Inspiring Story of Our Lady of Lourdes
“One mustn't stretch out so much as the tip of one's little finger to the devil. On the contrary, the greater the temptation, the higher the barrier behind which a girl must protect herself.”
― All for the Love of Mothers: Memoirs of a Catholic Midwife
― All for the Love of Mothers: Memoirs of a Catholic Midwife
“She looked at everyone, and with so much love and affection! Sometimes she seemed to be looking one by one at people there, and now and again her look would rest on someone for a moment as thought she had recognized a friend.”
― Bernadette and Lourdes: The Whole Inspiring Story of Our Lady of Lourdes
― Bernadette and Lourdes: The Whole Inspiring Story of Our Lady of Lourdes
“Hard as Stepan Arkadyich tried to be a solicitous father and husband, he never could remember that he had a wife and children.”
― Anna Karenina, Vol 3 of 8
― Anna Karenina, Vol 3 of 8
“Do you know, Jacob, when we are talking like this, I feel as if the heart of the little one in my womb were standing still with horror, because it can hear what we are saying. I feel as though it were moving its little hands and were begging: Let me live! You called me into existence. Isn't a human life a sacred thing? Has not God commanded: Thou shalt not kill? And you wanted to be father and mother to me - you awakened me to life - and yet you can discuss whether I am to live or not.”
― All for the Love of Mothers: Memoirs of a Catholic Midwife
― All for the Love of Mothers: Memoirs of a Catholic Midwife
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