Cross, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Amongst all the marvels of the passion what we should most dwell upon is the unspeakable love with which Christ suffered for us, that we may love Him more and suffer with Him more sweetly. But chiefly that we may imitate Him, and be conformed to His image.
–Saint Louis de Blois (1506-1566)
Acceptance, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Silence
Never question God’s dealings with you. Respect God’s work in your soul with silence.
–John Hardon (1914-2000)
Blessed Virgin Mary, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
If Our Lord spent thirty years in obedience and dependence on Mary, doing His Father’s Will, what better example have we? Unite ourselves to Him, and ask Mary to teach us how to love perfectly, how to fulfill daily God’s Will in all things.
–Venerable Edel Quinn (1907-1944)
Acceptance, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Blessed be God who permits our age, sicknesses, and moral suffering to make us feel so useless and unable do anything.
–Blessed Luisitia Josefa (1866-1937)
Detachment, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Jesus does not want us to be attached to possessions, to human honors, to creatures. He asks humility. But His love and His generosity make this detachment less difficult and less cruel to our nature. Nothing else matters to me anymore, nothing has any value for me but Jesus, no place, no thing, no person, no idea, no feeling, no honor, no suffering, nothing that can turn me away from Jesus. For me, Jesus Himself is my honor, my delight, my heart, my spirit, He whom I love, what I love, my home Heaven here on earth. Jesus is my treasure and my love and Jesus crucified is my only happiness.
–Saint Bernadette (1844-1879)
John of Kronstadt (1829-1908), Page: Quotes, Prayer (how), Quote Author, Quote Topic
Remember that not a single word is lost during prayer, if you say it from your heart; God hears each word, and weighs it in a balance. Sometimes it seems to us that our words only strike the air in vain, and sound as the voice of one crying in the wilderness. No, no; it is not so!…The Lord responds to every desire of the heart, expressed in words or unexpressed.
–Saint John of Kronstadt (1829-1908)
