Words of wisdom

Intelligence is a great gift of God. But it is a gift to be used wisely. Otherwise it is like certain medicines that, when taken in the wrong way, kill instead of curing.

• God's gifts
• Intelligence
• Poison
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It is so easy to dim the purity of the heart. And those whose hearts are not pure cannot see God.

• Blessed are the pure in heart
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Humility is like water that washes.

• Words of wisdom

Oh! the freshness of a heart! Children have it by gift of God. The just have it by gift of God and through their own will. Saints have it by gift of God and through their will elevated to heroism.

• Words of wisdom

A soul must weave its daily garland of virtuous deeds, because nothing withered or slovenly looking is to appear in the presence of the Most High. I said daily. Because a soul does not know when God-Bridegroom may appear and say: “Come”. Therefore you must never tire renewing the garland. Be not afraid. Flowers wither. But the flowers of virtuous wreaths do not wither. God’s angel, whom every man has at his side, picks up these daily wreaths and takes them to Heaven. And they will be there in the throne for the new blessed soul when it enters the nuptial house as the bride.

• Acts - Actions
• Eternal crown
• Guardian angel
• Heaven - Paradiso
• How to perfect and sanctify yourself
• Perseverance
• Saints and blessed
• Union with God and Jesus - Living with God
• Virtues
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He who believes holds onto God’s words and commandments in order to possess God, his ultimate aim, and therefore he shuns corruption, he is not perturbed or afraid, he feels no remorse, he is not compelled to make an effort to remember lies or to conceal evil deeds and remains young and handsome by means of the beautiful incorruptibility of saints

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Everyday life, with its disappointments, ascertainments, contacts, temptations, disagreements, tends to diminish faith. No! It must not happen. Go every day to the source of the sweet, sapiential oil of God. A lamp with little oil can be put out by the least puff of wind or by the heavy dew of the night. The night… The hour of darkness, of sin, of temptation comes for everybody. It is night for the soul. But if the soul is filled to the brim with faith, its flame cannot be put out by the wind of the world or by the fog of sensuality.

• Fighting temptation
• Test
• Wisdom
• Words of wisdom

I do not want you to be afraid of God, on the contrary I want you to have faith in His goodness.

• Anxiety - Fear - Fearfulness
• Fear of God
• God's goodness
• Trust in God
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I solemnly tell you that it is much easier for a poor man to be in God than it is for a rich one; and in the Heaven of My Father and yours, many seats will be occupied by those who on the earth were despised because they were the least amongst men, like trodden dust.

• Heaven - Paradiso
• Union with God and Jesus - Living with God
• Words of wisdom

The poor keep in their hearts the pearls of the words of God. They are their only treasure. He who has only one precious thing, watches over it. He who has many, is bored and absent-minded, proud and sensual. That is why he does not admire with humble loving eyes the treasure given by God, and confuses it with other treasures, only apparently precious, treasures which are the riches of the earth.

• God's gifts
• Pride
• Restlessness - Preoccupation
• Sensuality - Pleasure of the senses - Enjoyment
• Word of God - Law of God
• Words of wisdom