Doing little things…
We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
–Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)
Faith without love…
As memory of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not produce the light of knowledge in the soul.
–Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)
Aim at charity…
Aim at charity. By this path of love, Christ came down to us. By it, we too may ascend to Him.
–Saint Leo the Great (c. 400-461)
When prayer becomes…
When prayer becomes too self-centered, even if it is centered upon noble and holy desires, if the focus of our prayer is I, me, or my, we are going to be in difficulty.
–Armand M. Nigro, S.J. (1928-
Prayer means speaking…
For many of us prayer means nothing more than speaking with God. And since it usually seems to be a quite one-sided affair, prayer simply means talking to God. This idea is enough to create great frustrations. If I present a problem, I expect a solution; if I formulate a question, I expect an answer; if I ask for guidance, I expect a response. And when it seems, increasingly, that I am talking into the dark, it is not so strange that I soon begin to suspect that my dialogue with God is in fact a monologue. Then I may begin to ask myself: To whom am I really speaking, God or myself? The crisis of our prayer life is that our mind may be filled with ideas of God while our heart remains far from him.
–Henri Nouwen (1932-1996)
A hopeful outlook…
The essence of Christian spiritual combat is, with the strength of faith, to maintain a hopeful outlook on every situation, on ourselves, on other people, on the Church and the world. Such an outlook enables us to react to every situation by loving.
–Jacques Philippe (1947-
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