What was the first rule of our dear Savior’s life? You know if was to do his Father’s will. Well, then, the first purpose of our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills; and thirdly, to do it because it is his will.
–Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821)
See the face of God in everyone.
–Saint Catherine L’aboure (1806-1876)
Remember that the proper result of contemplative prayer is simplicity in the whole life; so that a contemplative is always doing the same thing all day and all night. He is praying, or having breakfast, or talking, or working, or amusing himself; but he is principally conscious that he is doing God’s will.
–John Chapman (1865-1933)
God knows I am here. This is his will for me.
–Saint Jose Isabel Flores Varela (1866-1927)
Jose Isabel Flores Varela
Anxiety and worry is for those who don’t have faith.
–Gabrilela Papayannis (1897-1992)
For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research. To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting.
–Saint John Paul (1920-2005)
