Humility is…
Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.
— Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Dry and empty prayers…
The Lord said in a vision: Pray inwardly, even though you find no joy in it. For it does good, though you feel nothing, see nothing, yes, even though you think you cannot pray. For when you are dry and empty, sick and weak, your prayers please me, though there be little enough to please you. All believing prayer is precious to me.
— Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
Jesus will never…
A mother may sometimes let her child fall and suffer in various ways, so that it may learn by its mistakes. But she will never allow any real harm to come to the child because of her love. And though earthly mothers may not be able to prevent their children from dying, our heavenly mother Jesus will never let us, his children, see death.
— Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
Prayer is laying hold…
Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
— Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
Whoever gives an evil example…
Whoever bids other folks to do right, but gives an evil example by acting the opposite way, is like a foolish weaver who weaves quickly with one hand and unravels the cloth just as quickly with the other.
–Saint Thomas More (1478-1535)
Christ came to…
Christ came to make a new world. He came into the world to regenerate it in Himself, to make a new beginning, to be the beginning of the creation of God, to gather together in one, and recapitulate all things in Himself. The rays of His glory were scattered through the world; one state of life had some of them, another others. The world was like some fair mirror, broken in pieces, and giving back no one uniform image of its Maker. But He came to combine what was dissipated, to recast what was shattered in Himself. He began all excellence, and of His fulness have all we received.
–Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
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