We need to find some time each day to sit quietly in peace, in stillness, savoring the mystery of God within us. Such silent sitting will not only prepare us to find “eternal rest” at the time of our death; it will help us find infinite peace in the midst of the problems of life.
–Edward Hays (1931-2016)
The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
–Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
Prayer is… a conversation with God. Though whispering, consequently, and not opening the lips, we speak in silence, yet we cry inwardly. For God hears continually the whole inward conversation.
–Saint Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-215)
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
–Karen Armstrong (1944-
Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism.
–Karen Armstrong (1944-
