In books and prayers…
In books we seek God; in prayer we find him.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
In receiving God…
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Seek the grace of devotion…
You must seek earnestly the grace of devotion, ask for it fervently, await it patiently and hopefully, receive it gratefully, guard it humbly, cooperate with it carefully and leave to God, when it comes, the length and manner of the heavenly visitation.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
The perfection of learning…
The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.
–Saint Hilary of Poitiers (c. 300-368)
A true sacrifice…
A true sacrifice is anything that we do with the aim of being united to God in holy fellowship – anything that is directed towards that supreme good and end in which alone we can be truly blessed… as the Latin word indicates: “sacri-ficium,” “holy-doing” or “holy-making.” Man himself can be a sacrifice, if he is consecrated in the name of God, and vowed to God – a sacrifice in so far as he dies to the world in order to live to God.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
A living sacrifice…
Saint Paul starts by exhorting us to present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, as an act of homage justly owed to him. He tells us not to conform ourselves to the world but to be transformed by renewing our will and our thinking: seeking to find out the will of God, to discover what is good, what is acceptable, what is perfect; for we ourselves are the whole of that sacrifice.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
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