As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. “I come to seek God because I need Him,” may be an adequate formula for prayer. “I come to adore His splendor, and fling myself and all that I have at God’s feet,” is the only possible formula for worship.
— Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941)
Adoration is the first and greatest of life’s responses to is spiritual environment; the first and most fundamental of spirit’s movement towards Spirit, the seed from which all other prayer must spring. It is among the most powerful of the educative forces which purify the understanding, form and develop the spiritual life.
— Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941)
Remember that the Christian life is one of action, not speech and daydreams. Let there be few words and many deeds, and let them be done well.
— Saint Vincent Pallotti (1795-1850)
The man who is filled with the Holy Spirit speaks in different languages. These different languages are different ways of witnessing to Christ, such as humility, poverty, patience, and obedience; we speak in those languages when we reveal in ourselves these virtues to others. Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak. We are full of words but empty of actions, and therefore are cursed by the Lord, since he himself cursed the fig tree when he found no fruit but only leaves. It is useless for a man to flaunt his knowledge of the law if he undermines its teaching by his actions.
–Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231)
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1890-1944)
God does not ask of us the perfection of tomorrow, nor even of tonight, but only of the present moment.
— Saint Madeline Sophie Barat (1779-1865)
