All spiritual…
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Let life alone…
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Hope in God…
The more desperate things seem, the more must we hope in God. When man’s aid fails, God’s is close at hand.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Fixed on God…
He lives the blessed life who, so far as possible, has his mind continually fixed on God and God in his mind.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Increase your efforts…
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan’s temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he’ll have an incentive to leave you alone.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Remain always satisfied with God…
So come! With heads erect, let us advance, ignoring everything, and remaining always satisfied with God and with all that he makes us do and accomplishes within us. Let us take good care not to get foolishly involved in all those fears and doubts which, like paths leading nowhere, only tempt us to wander on and on until we are hopelessly lost. Let us leap over this maze of self-love instead of trying to explore its endless alleys.
–Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751)
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