God is light…
Let no one deceive you. God is light, and to those who have entered into union with him, he imparts of his own brightness to the extent that they have been purified.
–Saint Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)
Every moment is a grace…
Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
The meaning of life is found…
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and “being present” in full awareness.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Let us work at being renewed…
Hour by hour, day by day, let us by penitence work at being renewed, so that we may learn to fight and wrestle with the devils, our enemies who are always at war with us.
–Saint Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)
We shall deliver our souls…
We see many men who are moved by the desire of transitory things to endure many toils and labors. They will travel great distance and even disregard wife and children and every other glory and enjoyment, and prefer nothing to their purpose in order that they may secure the attainment of their goal. If, then, there are some who make every effort to attain transitory and temporal ends even to the point of laying down their very lives, shall we not deliver our souls and bodies to death for the sake of the King of kings and Lord of lords (I Tim 6:15), the Creator and Sovereign of all things?
–Saint Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)
Listen less to listen more…
Listen rather less to your own thoughts, so as to be able to listen more to God.
–François Fénèlon (1651-1715)
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