Our Lord is…
Our Lord is always ready to lift us up again when we fall, and he even finds a way to make our falls beneficial to us if after them we turn back to him with a humble, trusting heart.
–Jacques Philippe (1947-
One who does not pray…
Let him who does not pray expect nothing whatsoever from God — neither salvation nor renewal no direction nor grace. Rather, he is consigned to the whims and fancy of his own mind, the will of his own ego, and the direction of his own thinking. He is like one who has rejected the intervention of the Lord Jesus in his life, like one who hides himself from the Spirit of God. A man who does not pray is one who is content with his own condition. He wishes to remain as he is and not be changed, renewed or saved. His life unconsciously changes from bad to worse. He recedes spiritually day after day. The ties that bind him to the earth and to the flesh increase without his awareness. His ego remains the source of all his desires and ambitions.
–Matthew the Poor (1919-2006)
Our good Redeemer…
Our good Redeemer, by speedily granting what is asked, draws to His love those who are grateful. But He keeps ungrateful souls praying a long time before Him, hungering and thirsting for what they want, since a badly trained dog rushes off as soon as it is given bread and leaves the giver behind.
–Saint John Climacus (c. 525-606)
Absurd to argue into believing…
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
–Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
The sacrifice of great sufferings…
It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
–Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Remain in God…
I advise you to remain simply either in God or close to God, without trying to do anything there, and without asking anything of Him, unless He urges it.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
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