Quote Of a Saint : Saint Raphael Kalinowski.

Every step of our life should bring us closer to God, and help to provide at least a little happiness to our neighbour.

The real happiness in this valley of tears, is doing God's will in everything. Only the person who seeks happiness in this way - avoiding all worry about the difficulties, sorrows and sufferings with which one may be afflicted - will find that happiness.

I like to find at least a few moments each day spent in doing good for others out of love for God. These few moments, almost unoticeably used, bring something like rays of peace and comfort behind them; they unite us with people and God by a pure feeling of tender sweetness.

I keep my eyes fixed on Eternity, and from this source I draw constancy in the midst of the confusion of daily life; freedom in my social relations, and joy in spirit...

Devotion to the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament was, and still is, for me a source of patience, perseverance, refuge and consolation; literally, the very spring of my life. Without this mystery of our Saviour's love, which he has left for us in the Church, I would have perished long since.

What a pity it is that , through we are on earth simply to prepare for Heaven, we hardly ever speak of it. How we waste our life and our energies!

We are not in Carmel for trifling things; we are here for God.

--- St Raphael Kalinowski

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