Reach God in love…
Don’t try to reach God with your understanding; that is impossible. Reach him in love; that is possible.
— Carlo Carretto (1910-1988)
We must be ignorant…
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
— Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
If knowing answers…
If knowing answers to life’s questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables — of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and, most of all, things unfair.
–Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717)
Every Christian should…
Every Christian should find for himself the imperative and incentive to become holy. If you live without struggle and without hope of becoming holy, then you are Christians only in name and not in essence. But without holiness, no one shall see the Lord, that is to say they will not attain eternal blessedness. It is a trustworthy saying that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners (I Tim. 1:15). But we deceive ourselves if we think that we are saved while remaining sinners. Christ saves those sinners by giving them the means to become saints.
— Saint Philaret of Moscow (1782-1867)
Perfection is achieved…
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1890-1944)
Enthusiastic to listen…
Just as the hungry long to eat and the thirsty to drink, so we should be enthusiastic to listen to the word of God. For by listening we gain the greatest benefits. If we are slothful, we put away sloth; if we are eager, we become even more eager; and from both the outcome is good.
— Saint Theodore the Studite (c. 759-826)
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