Believe the incredible…
Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
–Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Voluntary expiatory suffering…
Thus, when someone desires to suffer, it is not merely a pious reminder of the suffering of the Lord. Voluntary expiatory suffering is what truly and really unites one to the Lord intimately. When it arises, it comes from an already existing relationship with Christ. For, by nature, a person flees from suffering.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
Leave it with God…
And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
— Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
The Lord knows best…
The Lord knows best what is needful for us. What He does, He does for our good. If we really knew just how much He loves us, we would always be willing to receive anything from His hand. We would receive the bitter and the sweet without distinction. Anything, yes everything would please us just because it came from Him.
–Frank Laubach (1884-1970)
Say grace before…
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
–GK Chesterton (1874-1936)
Tumble into our graves…
Many are the rainbows, the sunbursts, the gentle breezes— and the hailstorms— we are liable to meet before, by the grace of God, we shall be able to tumble into our graves with the confidence of tired children into their places of peaceful slumber.
–Blessed Solanus Casey (1870-1957)
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