Acceptance, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Blessed be God who permits our age, sicknesses, and moral suffering to make us feel so useless and unable do anything.
–Blessed Luisitia Josefa (1866-1937)
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Don’t worry and don’t allow yourself to drown in a drop of water. You’re all right where you are.
–Blessed Luisitia Josefa (1866-1937)
Detachment, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Jesus does not want us to be attached to possessions, to human honors, to creatures. He asks humility. But His love and His generosity make this detachment less difficult and less cruel to our nature. Nothing else matters to me anymore, nothing has any value for me but Jesus, no place, no thing, no person, no idea, no feeling, no honor, no suffering, nothing that can turn me away from Jesus. For me, Jesus Himself is my honor, my delight, my heart, my spirit, He whom I love, what I love, my home Heaven here on earth. Jesus is my treasure and my love and Jesus crucified is my only happiness.
–Saint Bernadette (1844-1879)
John of Kronstadt (1829-1908), Page: Quotes, Quote Author
Observe the difference between the presence of the life-giving spirit and the presence of the spirit that deadens and destroys your soul. When there are good thoughts in your soul you feel happy and at ease; when peace and joy are in your heart, then the spirit of good, the Holy Spirit, is within you; whilst when evil thoughts or evil motions of the heart arise within you, you feel ill at ease and oppressed; when you are inwardly troubled, then the spirit of evil, the crafty spirit, is within you.
–Saint John of Kronstadt (1829-1908)
John of Kronstadt (1829-1908), Page: Quotes, Prayer (how), Quote Author, Quote Topic
Remember that not a single word is lost during prayer, if you say it from your heart; God hears each word, and weighs it in a balance. Sometimes it seems to us that our words only strike the air in vain, and sound as the voice of one crying in the wilderness. No, no; it is not so!…The Lord responds to every desire of the heart, expressed in words or unexpressed.
–Saint John of Kronstadt (1829-1908)
John of Kronstadt (1829-1908), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Suffering
Both Holy Scriptures and personal experience testify that, in order to draw near to God, it is necessary for the sinner to suffer, weep, shed tears, and convert his deceitful heart:
–Saint John of Kronstadt (1829-1908)