Prayer is…
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Retirement has may advantages…
Retirement has many advantages. It becomes a time to remake one’s soul, to interiorize, to mediate and begin a cram course for the final exam.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
It was to a virgin woman…
It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
To love is to be transformed…
To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
God dwells…
You yourself are the lodging wherein God dwells, and the closet and hiding-place wherein He is hidden.
— Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
God turns all…
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever God’s glance falls it turns all things to beauty.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
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