When you remember…
At the times when you remember God, increase your prayers, so that when you forget Him, the Lord may remind you.
— Saint Mark the Ascetic (Fifth Century)
Spiritual reading is…
Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer. It is important to increase our sense of God’s richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
— Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941)
We deceive ourselves…
We therefore grossly deceive ourselves in not allotting more time to the study of divine truths. It is not enough barely to believe them, and let our thoughts now and then glance upon them: that knowledge which shows us heaven, will not bring us to the possession of it, and will deserve punishments, not rewards, if it remain slight, weak, and superficial. By serious and frequent meditation it must be concocted, digested, and turned into the nourishment of our affections, before it can be powerful and operative enough to change them, and produce the necessary fruit in our lives.
— Saint Appolinaris (453-520)
Attribute to God….
Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.
— Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231)
Silence exists so…
Silence exists so that we might speak to God. And it is in silence that God communicates His graces to us.
— Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660)
Why we follow Jesus…
This is why the people followed Jesus, because He was the Good Shepherd. He wasn’t a moralistic, quibbling Pharisee, or a Sadducee who made political deals with the powerful, or a guerrilla who sought the political liberation of his people, or a contemplative in a monastery. He was a pastor! A pastor who spoke the language of His people, who understood, who spoke the truth, the things of God. He never trafficked in God’s things! He spoke in such a way that the people loved God’s things. And that is why they followed Him.
–Pope Francis (1936-
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