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1 " I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. "
― Thérèse de Lisieux , Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
2 " Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and the time. I only know the year and the season, and I only know the season because my mother had a great desire for asparagus when she was carrying me and swears that she ate it too green and her bellyache brought on my birth. "
― Philippa Gregory , The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)
3 " Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love. "
― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
4 " It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to our tasks to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal. "
5 " It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. "
