God doesn’t ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.
Love to be real, it must cost— it must hurt— it must empty us of self.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
To give ourselves fully to God is a means of receiving God himself.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
God gives us things to share, God doesn’t give us things to hold.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Our availability for prayer presupposes, not only faith in the importance of prayer, but also a real effort of interior detachment, which must be accepted in principle as being deep and without limit, in the very measure of our love.
–René Voillaume (1905 – 2003)
By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we have nailed Him there and crucified Him; but the Love in His eternal heart could not be extinguished. He willed to give us the very life we slew; to give us the very Food we destroyed; to nourish us with the very Bread we buried, and the very Blood we poured forth. He made our very crime into a happy fault; He turned a Crucifixion into a Redemption; a Consecration into a Communion; a death into Life Everlasting
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
