No doubt, it is a grace to receive the sacraments. When God does not permit it, it is good too! Everything is grace! When I shall have arrived at port, I will teach you how to travel…on the stormy sea of the world: with surrender and the love of a child who knows his Father loves him and cannot leave him alone in the hour of danger…The way of simple love and confidence is really made for you.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Let us abandon everything to the merciful providence of God.
–Saint Albert the Great (c. 1206-1280)
Lose yourself wholly;
and the more you lose,
the more you will find. –Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, ‘Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.’
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
