Is your life merely a continuous chain of events with time for sleeping, for rising, for eating, for study, for work, for relaxation, watching television, or reading newspapers? If there is not unifying element to your life, it will be meaningless. That element is the love of God. With it your life will change and all your actions will testify to God’s presence within you.
–Francois-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuân (1928-2002)
Perhaps I should clarify the word mystic. By mystic I mean any conscious union of God with humans, initiated and sustained by God; it is an experience which we cannot make, earn, or be responsible for. You cannot initiate or sustain it yourself.
–Armand M. Nigro, S.J. (1928-
Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
They seek not beyond what is necessary, they admire not the beauty of the body, they are not grieved at the loss of worldly wealth, therefore does the Savior say that theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Are you angry? Be angry at your sins, beat your soul, afflict your conscience, but strict in judgement and a terrible punisher of your own sins. This is the benefit of anger, wherefore God placed it in us.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
