The object of a new year…
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.
— GK Chesterton (1874-1936)
The merciful receive mercy…
Our future reward is made manifest through the impulses of the heart. A merciful heart will receive mercy, while a merciless heart will receive the opposite.
— Saint Mark the Ascetic (Fifth Century)
Divine mercy…
So there is earthly and heavenly mercy: that is, human and divine. What is human mercy? Exactly this: to have care for the sufferings of the poor. What is divine mercy? Without doubt, to grant forgiveness of sins. Whatever human mercy gives away on the journey, divine mercy pays back when we arrive at last in our native land.
— Saint Caesarius of Arles (460-542)
Without effort, even…
Without effort, even in the most painful hours of life, we can taste the admirable poetry of the psalms and find in them light, rest, strength, renewal of all energies.
–Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877–1964)
God’s plans are…
God’s plans are always for the best, always wonderful. But most especially for the patient and the humble who trust in Him are His plans unfathomably holy and sublime.
–Blessed Solanus Casey (1870-1957)
Make the psalms…
Make the psalms your own. Do not sing them as verses composed by another person. Let them be born in your own prayers. When they come from your lips, understand that they were not merely fulfilled temporarily when they were first written. They are being fulfilled now in your daily life.
–Saint John Cassian (c. 360-435)
About
