Have God…
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Life must be…
Life must be lived forwards, but it can be understood only backwards.
–Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Pass on the love…
May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content knowing that you are a child of God. Let this presence settle into our bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and everyone of you.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
When we have failed…
When we are conscious of having failed and done wrong, we must humble ourselves before God, and implore his pardon , and then quietly move ahead. Our defect should make us humble, but never cowardly.
–Saint Clement Hofbauer (1751-1820)
God’s will is…
God’s will is like the sun whose rays are like his will for each one of us. Each of us walks along a ray, distinct from the ray of the person next to us, but always along a ray of the sun. The closer the rays get to the sun, the closer they get to each other. For us too, the closer we come to God, by carrying out the divine will, more and more, the closer we draw to each other.
–Chiara Lubich (1920–2008)
Be satisfied…
Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as we have been taught, so that we may keep our souls unenslaved and absolutely free from domination by any of the visible things loved for the sake of the body. Let us show that we eat for the sake of living, and not be guilty of living for the sake of eating. The first is a sign of intelligence, the second proof of its absence.
— Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)
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