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"Our greatest need is God's grace."
"Etta saw the way Sophia took a deep breathe, set her shoulders back, and moved with practiced grace on her way out - and she understood something about the other girl, truly understood for the first time. Sophia wanted it, when she was only ever sent out."
"If after I depart this vale you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl."
"Without God's grace, we stumble in sin."
"It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there."
"The greatest patient is to wait for God to act."
"Grounded by healthy self-esteem and personal self-worth, this admirable character quality can inspire awe and reverence."
"There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly."
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"When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives."
"After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted."
"What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences."
"Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it."
"The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers."
"The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school."
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