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    “St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.”
    —Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990)

    “There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in—that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.”
    —Mother Teresa (b. 1910)

    “The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “A two-week-old infant cries an average of one and a half hours every day. This increases to approximately three hours per day when the child is about six weeks old. By the time children are twelve weeks old, their daily crying has decreased dramatically and averages less than one hour. This same basic pattern of crying is present among children from a wide range of cultures throughout the world. It appears to be wired into the nervous system of our species.”
    —Lawrence Kutner (20th century)

    “Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 3:20-21.