God works through…
God works through people and situations both because of them and in spite of them.
–Daniel Burke (3/10/2017)
To hear God…
We are no longer able to hear God — there are too many frequencies filling our ears.
–Pope Benedict XVI (1927-
Two good works…
Two good works present themselves to be done, one in favor of a person we love, the other in favor of a person who has done us some harm. Well, we must give preference to the latter.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
The mystery of Christ…
As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf or a piece of paper, so the mystery of Christ in the Gospel concentrates the rays of God’s light and fire to a point that sets fire to the spirit of man. … Through the glass of His Incarnation He concentrates the rays of His Divine Truth and Love upon us so that we feel the burn, and all mystical experience is communicated to men through the Man Christ.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Two serious evils…
In order that what we have said may be the more clearly and fully understood, it will be well to set down here and state how these desires are the cause of two serious evils in the soul: the one is that they deprive it of the Spirit of God, and the other is that the soul wherein they dwell is wearied, tormented, darkened, defiled and weakened
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
No spiritual substance…
Be hostile to admitting into your soul things that of themselves have no spiritual substance, lest they make you lose your liking for devotion and recollection.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
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