Be not angry…
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
–Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471)
Prayer is our…
Prayer is our personal response to God’s presence. We approach the Lord reverently with a listening heart. God speaks first. In prayer, we acknowledge the Divine presence and in gratitude respond to God in love. The focus is always on God and on what God does.
–Jacqueline Syrup Bergan and Marie Schwan (1983)
Sharpen the blade…
There was an exhausted woodcutter who kept wasting time and energy chopping wood with a blunt ax because he did not have the time, he said, to stop and sharpen the blade.
–Anthony de Mello (1931-1987)
Repentance brings…
Repentance brings an intense desire for God, deep gratitude, and a growth in self-awareness that increases our freedom to love.
–Anthony de Mello (1931-1987)
Wisdom tends to grow…
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.
–Anthony de Mello (1931-1987)
Spontaneous intimacy…
Formerly, I had never heard anyone speak to me of a totally spontaneous intimacy in relations with God. However, at the bottom of my heart I thought that a soul can be intimate with God by using all ways to express its love for him; that it can converse with him by using no matter what sort of ordinary words, according to its needs and circumstances. Of course it is not a waste of time to recite prayers; however, it might be that it is not so profitable as a conversation of the soul conversing gently with God in terms which spring spontaneously from the heart.
–Francois-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuân (1928-2002)
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