Live your way…
You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
–Henri Nouwen (1932–1996)
Mercy is greater…
Mercy will always be greater than any sin, no one can put a limit on the love of the all-forgiving God. Just by looking at him, just raising our eyes from ourselves and our wounds, we leave an opening for the action of his grace. Jesus performs miracles with our sins, with what we are, with our nothingness, with our wretchedness.
–Pope Francis (1936-
Key of love…
Creatures came into existence when the key of love opened his hand.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Without the Cross…
When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.
–Pope Francis (1936-
In the dark…
In nature, when the sun goes down and night falls, we no longer see the objects surrounding us, but we do see distant objects not visible during the day, such as the stars, which are thousands of light-years away. And the sun must hide that we may see them, that we may be able to glimpse the depths of the firmament. Analogously, during the night of the spirit we see much farther than during the luminous period preceding it; the inferior lights must be taken away from us in order that we may begin to see the heights of the spiritual firmament.
–Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877–1964)
We cannot be free…
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
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