Acceptance, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
We have to learn to live in the present moment. We have to ask God: What are you calling me to do now, in this present moment? Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but right now. God’s will is manifested to us in the duties and experiences of the present moment. We have only to accept them and try to be like Jesus in them.
–Mother Angelica (1923-2016)
Adversity, Page: Quotes, Philip Neri (1515-1595), Quote Author, Quote Topic
Tribulations, if we bear them patiently for the love of God, appear bitter at first, but they grow sweet, when one gets accustomed to the taste.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
We must not give in to weariness: we must spend every minute in loving God. God alone, the maker of heaven and earth, must be our rest and our consolation. The love of God is the only thing we can possess forever: everything else will pass away.
–Saint Joaquina de Vedruna (1783-1854)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
In front of the big ‘why’ of life we have two paths: to stay to watch gloomily the tombs of yesterday and of today, or to bring Jesus to our tombs…Yes, because each of us has a small tomb, some area that is a little bit dead inside the heart: a wound, an injury suffered or done (to us), a bitterness that does not let up, remorse that returns, a sin that you cannot overcome…Instead, invite Jesus; we are tempted to always look to ourselves, brooding and sinking in anguish, licking our wounds, rather than going to him, who says, ‘Come to me you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.’
–Pope Francis (1936-
Acceptance, Adversity, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Whatever the course of our lives, we should receive them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatsoever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means, detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.
–Galileo (1564-1642)
Page: Quotes, Spiritual (life)
Lent is a favorable time to intensify spiritual life: may the practice of fasting be of help to you, in order to acquire greater mastery of yourselves; may prayer be the means to entrust your lives to God and to feel him always nearby; may the works of mercy help you to live open to the needs of brothers and sisters.
–Pope Francis (1936-
