If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

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God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory.

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There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.

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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

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Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

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