Catherine McAuley Quotes

• We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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  Ordinary, Ordinary Things, Strive

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• We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.

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  Light, Giving, Shining

  Catherine McAuley (2017). “A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley”, p.8, CUA Press

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• Let us take one day only in hands at a time. Resolve to do good today and better tomorrow.

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  Hands, One Day, Today

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• The poor need help today, not next week.

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  Next Week, Needs, Today

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• The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

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  Lessons, Today, Tomorrow

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• I have great confidence in you to do what you think best. State your opinion and always act with courage.

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  Thinking, Opinion, States

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• No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

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  Charity, Instruction, Careful

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• The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.

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  Mercy Of God, Mercy, Given

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• If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior.

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  Heart, Reign, God Love

  Catherine McAuley (2017). “A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley”, p.179, CUA Press

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• A good beginning is of great importance.

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  Importance

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• A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.

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  Community, Charity, Reign

  Catherine McAuley (2017). “A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley”, p.70, CUA Press

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• Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.

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  Children, Compassion, Adults

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• Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

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  Each Day, Lasts, Steps

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• Our charity is to be cordial...something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other.

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  Charity, Our Love, Should

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• No matter how small the gift, God gives the increase.

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  Giving, Matter, Increase

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• Show your instructions in actions as much as you can.

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  Action, Instruction, Shows

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• Our hearts can always be in the same place, centered on God.

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  Heart

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• We belong to God. All in us is His.

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• Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.

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  Joy, Spirit, Holy

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• We have one solid comfort amidst this little tripping about, our hearts can always be in the same place, centered in God, for whom alone we go forward or stay back.

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  Heart, Comfort, Littles

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• Teach me to do your will, for you are my God.

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  Teach

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• Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.

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  Pain, Feelings, Wish

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• There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.

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  Design, Judgement, Want

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• We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.

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  Numbers, Desire, Foundation

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