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The Lord said, "Love your neighbor as yourself." Which means we must love ourselves first, for we are, in a manner of speaking, our first neighbor.

— Catherine Doherty The Gospel Without Compromise (1976)

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Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces everyone of us at one time or another.

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With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.

The stranger is simply a friend I haven't met yet.

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Faith sees God's face in every human face.

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Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.

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