Nothing in this world but God can fill our heart or fully satisfy our desires … the desires of the human heart cannot be satisfied with the goods of this world, because only the grace of God can quench the thirst of our desires.
–Saint Innocent of Alaska (1797-1879)
Do you want to do a good deed? Teach the young!
Do you want to perform a holy act? Teach the young!
Do you want to do a holy thing? Teach the young!
Truly, now and for the future, among holy things, this is the holiest.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
–Soren Kierkegaard (1830-1855)
It is a good thing to contemplate the truth, and better still to pass it on to others. To reflect the light is something more than simply to receive it. It is better to give light, than to shine under a bushel. By contemplation the soul is fed: by the apostolate, it gives itself away.
–Jean-Baptiste Chautard (1858-1935)
Every man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.
–GK Chesterton (1874-1936)
The soul may take dryness and darkness as fortunate symptoms: symptoms that God is freeing her from herself. He is disentangling her from the activity of her faculties. Probably she would have been able to acquire much through this, her own activity, but never as completely, perfectly, and securely as she does now since God takes her by the hand. He is leading her in the darkness… by ways that she herself, in the happiest of wanderings while using her own eyes and feet, would never have succeeded in finding.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
