God has things to tell us which will enlighten us — we must wait for Him to speak. No one would rush into a physicians office, rattle off all the symptoms, and dash away without waiting for a diagnosis. It is every bit as stupid to ring God’s bell and then run away. The Lord hears us more readily than we suspect; it is our listening to Him that needs to be improved.
–Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.
–Blessed Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)
The language of God is silence.
–Gabrilela Papayannis (1897-1992)
The silence required of the Christian is not fundamentally and primarily of human making. Rather, believers must realize that they already possess within themselves and at the same time in God the quiet, hidden “chamber” into which they are to enter (Mt 6:6).
–Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988)
I have come to love the darkness – for I believe now that it is part, a very small part of Jesus’ darkness and pain on earth.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
