Listen in silence…
Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
God speaks in silence…
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen; for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
If discouraged…
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Giving until it hurts…
You must give what will cost you something. This is giving not just what you can live without, but what you can’t live without, or don’t want to live without, something you really like. Then your gift becomes a sacrifice, which will have value before God. This giving until it hurts – this sacrifice – is what I call love in action.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
With dark emptiness…
‘Unless you become a little child.’ I am sure you will understand beautifully everything if you would only “become” a little child in God’s hands. Your longing for God is so deep, and yet He keeps Himself away from you. He must be forcing Himself to do so, because He loves you so much – as to give Jesus to die for you and for me. Christ is longing to be your Food. Surrounded with fullness of living Food, you allow yourself to starve. The personal love Christ has for you is infinite; the small difficulty you have regarding His Church is finite. Overcome the finite with the infinite. Christ has created you because He wanted you. I know what you feel – terrible longing with dark emptiness. And yet, He is the one in love with you.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Busyness is a disease…
The biggest disease in North America is busyness.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
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