The kind of person God wants you to be, the kind of grace and prayer he is offering to you and desires so much to give you, is to enable you to be a profoundly prayerful person, a genuine contemplative all day long, no less in manual work or in suffering than during the Divine Office or at the Sacrifice of the Mass. Private prayer is essential to this.
–Armand M. Nigro, S.J. (1928-
There is no “formula” for the truly God-pleasing life; anything outward can become counterfeit; everything depends on the state of the soul, which must be trembling before God, having the law of God before it in every area of life, every moment keeping what is God’s in honor, in the first place in life.
–Blessed Seraphim of Platina (1934-1982)
I see that we have to take many steps before arriving at sanctity. We think every step we take a be the last, and then we find that we have done nothing, we have hardly begun.
–Saint Claude de la Colombiere (1641-1682)
Make Christ more visible than we ourselves.
–Blessed Maria Karlowska (1865-1935)
Let every one of you have the Holy Scripture and read from it, since these are God’s words, they teach us how to live and prepare ourselves for the future life. Pray at home daily, and on Sundays and holidays, come to church, to this holy place which is devoted to service to God, where God’s angels abide and pray together with you.
–Saint John Maximovich (1896-1966)
You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.
–Saint Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975)
