Saintliness depends on…
Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
The door of your heart…
You need not seek him here or there, he is no further that the door of your heart; there he stands patiently awaiting whoever is ready to open up and let him in. No need to call him from afar: he can hardly wait for you to open up. He longs for you a thousand times more that you long for him.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
It is the heart that prays…
According to Scripture, it is the heart that prays. If our heart is far from God, the words of prayer are in vain.
–Catechism of the Catholic Church #2562
Prayer is the life…
Prayer is the life of the new heart. It ought to animate us at every moment. But we tend to forget him who is our life and our all. This is why the Fathers of the spiritual life in the Deuteronomic and prophetic traditions insist that prayer is a remembrance of God often awakened by the memory of the heart.
–Catechism of the Catholic Church #2697
The wonder of prayer…
The wonder of prayer is revealed beside the well where we come seeking water: there, Christ comes to meet every human being. It is he who first seeks us and asks us for a drink. Jesus thirsts; his asking arises from the depths of God’s desire for us. Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God’s thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him.
–Catechism of the Catholic Church #256
To remember God…
It is more important to remember God than it is to remember to breathe.
–Saint Gregory Nazianzen (329-c. 391)
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