Catholic and apostolic…
Grounded in the power of the resurrection, there is nothing in this world, and nothing in Hell, that can ultimately defeat God’s one, true, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
–Daniel Jenky (1947-
Hungry and yearning…
The inward stirring and touching of God makes us hungry and yearning; for the Spirit of God hunts our spirit: and the more it touches it, the greater our hunger and our craving.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293- 1381)
Yearn deeply…
For it is no small thing that God is going to give to those who thus yearn (for God); no half-efforts will get them to the goal. What God is going to give them is not something he has made; he is going to give himself… Toil, then, to lay hold of God; yearn deeply for what you are going to possess forever.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Love the light…
Let us love the light, long to understand it and thirst after if so that led by it we may come to it, and there live for ever.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Holy desire…
The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
The covenant of Baptism…
For this cause the Lord, who gives us our life, gave us the covenant of baptism, containing a type of life and death, for the water fulfils the image of death, and the Spirit gives us the promise of life… Like a tomb, the water receives the body, symbolizing death; while the Spirit pours in the quickening power, renewing our souls from the deadness of sin into their original life. This then is what it is to be born again of water and of the Spirit, the water bringing the necessary death while the Spirit creates life within us.
–Saint Basil the Great (330-379)
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