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thoughts
The thoughts of Louis-Marie Baudouin.
November 2008
"We do not read a lot at one sitting but try to benefit from what we read.
Our desire is to put the Word into practice."
(Louis Marie Baudouin)
October 2008
"Above all have confidence in this good Mother who loves you much more than you could love her."
(Loius Marie Baudouin)
September 2008
"Our Lord was a traveller for 33 years....
He took the side of the innocent against the guilty, the humble against the proud, the simple of heart against the hypocrites! That is what justice is.
(Louis Marie Baudouin)
August 2008
"Scripture is a letter that the Most High sends you. The Holy Scriptures are the word which enlightens the eyes of the soul and fixes its attention on his will."
Letter of 23.06.1827)
July 2008
"The grace of God has poured the spirit of love into our
hearts ... "
(Letter of 1826)
June 2008
"Have a great love for the poor, I repeat, a great love for the poor, the needy, the sick, orphans, widows, old people. Our Lord loves them."
(Louis Marie Baudouin 1808)
May 2008
"Our word, interior and exterior, is the image of the Incarnate Word."
(Primitive Rule)
April 2008
"The gentle word is like dew: it refreshes the earth
and makes it fruitful."
(Louis Marie)
March 2008
"Jesus is wisdom itself and it is he who gives it to us.
It is almost impossible to be really humble
without being gentle.
Gentleness and humility are close to wisdom."
(Letter of 31.03. 1823)
February 2008
"Reading the Scriptures, we think and talk like God and become godly."
(Louis Marie Baudouin)
January 2008
"You would like to follow in my footsteps,
why not follow in the footsteps of Jesus
It is the only certain road."
(Letter of 08.06.1828)
Christmas 2007
"We must place ourselves in spirit in the stable of Bethlehem,
picturing to ourselves Jesus Christ in the manger,
the Blessed Virgin, St. Joseph and the shepherds who have
come to adore Him."
(Thought on Prayer 1831)
December 2007
"The One whom we touch, whom we see, whom we possess, who still converses with us through His Spirit, in the Holy Scriptures, in the Eucharist, our Emmanuel."
(Letter of 16.12.1815)
November 2007
"A heart enjoys great freedom when Jesus is its only lodestar."
(Letter of 14.11.1816)
October 2007
"Study Jesus! Listen to Jesus!
Live on Jesus all your life to your last sigh!
This is the job of a true Christian.
Everything else is nothing."
(Letter of 23.10.1825)
September 2007
"Make yourself as free as the bird that flies with
nothing but its wings."
(Letter of 22.1.1814)
Louis-Marie Baudouin’s signature
from one of his many letters
