The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to produce great effects. This is not God’s method; quite the contrary. He likes to choose the weakest instruments that He may confound the strong: “God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong — Infirma mundi elegit ut confundat fortia.” (1 Cor 1:27)
–Blessed Columba Marmion (1858-1923)
We do not have to become saints by our own power; we have to learn how to let God make us into saints.
–Jacques Philippe (1947-
True freedom consists in not being attached to anything. It is in this detachment that God seeks your soul in order to work His great marvels.
–Jacques Philippe (1947-
Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle.
–Saint Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975)
Thus the blessed Mother of Christ, knowing that she is the mother of all Christians by reason of this mystery, shows herself a mother by her care and loving attention. For her heart is not hardened against these children as if they were not her own; her womb carried a child once only, yet it remains ever fruitful, never ceasing to bring forth the fruits of her motherly compassion.
–Blessed Guerric of Igny (c. 1075-1157)
When you also have found Christ, when you have found wisdom, when you have found justice, holiness and redemption (for Christ became all these for us), when you have found all these, hold them by affection and by attention. What you have found by understanding, hold by diligence and keep hold, if I may so express it, of the elusive virtues. Clasp their slippery forms to you in a tighter embrace until, reversing their roles, they cling to you, embrace you willingly, hold you fast without the labor of your own initiative, and permit you neither to depart very far nor to be away very long. Even if at times you should turn aside to meet the claims of human need, there let them pursue you, recall you, and clutch you to themselves, so that if they cannot always have your uninterrupted attention, they may always have your dedicated affection.
–Gilbert of Hoyland (Twelfth Century)
