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Joy isn’t found in the objects that surround us; it’s found in the innermost recesses of the soul. One can possess it as well in a prison as in a palace.
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St. Therese of Lisieux (via fathershane)
12:30pm | 10 Aug 2011 | 72 notes | joy | happiness | happy | feelings | emotions | emotion | soul | interior | interior life | prison | palace | princess | depression | depressed | god | prayer | christian | spiritual | spirituality
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Joy isn’t found in the objects that surround us; it’s found in the innermost recesses of the soul. One can possess it as well in a prison as in a palace.
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St. Therese of Lisieux (via thefullnessofthefaith)

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12:32pm | 11 Aug 2011 | 72 notes | christian | depressed | depression | emotions | feelings | god | happiness | happy | interior | interior life | joy | palace | prayer | prison | soul | spiritual | spirituality
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Depression comes from not having faults but from refusal to face them. There are tens of thousands of persons today suffering from fears which in reality are nothing but the effects of hidden sin. The examination of conscience will cure us of self- deception. It will also cure us of depression!
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Bishop Fulton Sheen (via wreckedsolitaryhere)
8:38pm | 22 Sep 2011 | 9 notes | love | depressed | depression | sin | hidden | face | reality | suffering | fear | conscience | deception | lying | denial | fault | refusal | God | catholic
A new patroness for Catholics suffering from depression »

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12:21pm | 5 Oct 2011 | 46 notes | depression | catholic | depressed | catholicism | virgin mary | mary