Quotes…

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Words (1 Thessalonians 4:18)
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“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

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The Impact of a Joyful Smile (1 Thessalonians 5:16)
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“Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”

“Peace begins with a smile.” 

“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”

“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”

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Walking in Faithfulness (James 1:22)
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“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
 
“God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.”

“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”

“It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”

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Love (1 Corinthians 13:4-8a)
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“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”

“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

“The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.”

“We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”

“It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.”

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

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True Poverty (Matthew 25:40)
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“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. “

“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”