Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
A life of faith is a life of gratitude – it means a life in which I am willing to experience my complete dependence upon God and to praise and thank him unceasingly for the gift of being. A truly eucharistic life means always saying thanks to God, always praising God, and always being more surprised by the abundance of God’s goodness and love. How can such a life not also be a joyful life? It is the truly converted life in which God has become the center of all. There gratitude is joy and joy is gratitude and everything becomes a surprising sign of God’s presence.
–Henri Nouwen (1932-1996)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith and acceptance; a quiet, tranquil realization of the love of God.
–Chief White Eagle (1917-2011)
Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
The Gospel is a harsh document; the Gospel is ruthless and specific in what it says; the Gospel is not meant to be re-worded, watered down and brought to the level of either our understanding or our taste. The Gospel is proclaiming something which is beyond us and which is there to stretch our mind, to widen our heart beyond the bearable at times, to recondition all our life, to give us a world view which is simply the world upside-down and this we are not keen to accept.
–Anthony Bloom (1914-2003)
Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
The whole teaching of the Gospel is really a teaching about loving. The fact that we fall short of it condemns us, but doesn’t make its declaration less true.
–Anthony Bloom (1914-2003)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
If God is God – and so he is – the hierarchy of happiness begins with him, not from the other end. The closer we are to God, the happier we are. The further away from him, the poorer.
–Carlo Carretto (1910-1988)
Acceptance, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
Things were in God’s plan which I had not planned at all. I am coming to the living faith and conviction that – from God’s point of view – there is no chance and that the whole of my life, down to every detail, has been mapped out in God’s divine providence and makes complete and perfect sense in God’s all-seeing eyes.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
