Do not walk through time…
Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.
–Saint John XXIII (1881-1963)
Seek God in every human life…
I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.
–Pope Francis (1936-
What makes saints saints…
Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are much more accessible. They are men and women like us, who live ordinary lives and struggle with ordinary problems. What makes them saints is their clear and unwavering focus on God and God’s people.
–Henri Nouwen (1932–1996)
To form Jesus in ourselves…
Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be the form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desires and his disposition live and reign there. All our religious exercises should be directed to this end. It is the work which God is given us to do unceasingly.
–Saint John Eudes (1601-1680)
Some Christians think…
Some Christians, who have a quietist tendency, are inclined to think that a person can rapidly reach perfection by the assiduous reading of the great mystics, without concerning himself enough with practising the virtues which these books recommend, and without remembering sufficiently that true contemplation should be completely penetrated by supernatural charity and forgetfulness of self.
–Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877–1964)
We are judged…
Do all you can to be resigned to the Will of God in all the sufferings that God permits, in your tiredness and in all the work you have to do. Keep your heart at peace and be recollected; don’t get upset. If you can go to church,
–Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)
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