Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Put your hand to strong things, by training yourself in prayer and meditation, receiving the Sacraments, bringing souls to love God, infusing good inspirations into their hearts and in fine, by performing big, important works according to your vocation. But never forget to practice those little, humble virtues that grow at the foot of the cross: helping the poor, visiting the sick and taking care of your family with all the tasks that go with such things and with all the useful diligence that will not allow you to be idle.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend. hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Silence, Spiritual (life), Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
‘Unless you become a little child.’ I am sure you will understand beautifully everything if you would only “become” a little child in God’s hands. Your longing for God is so deep, and yet He keeps Himself away from you. He must be forcing Himself to do so, because He loves you so much – as to give Jesus to die for you and for me. Christ is longing to be your Food. Surrounded with fullness of living Food, you allow yourself to starve. The personal love Christ has for you is infinite; the small difficulty you have regarding His Church is finite. Overcome the finite with the infinite. Christ has created you because He wanted you. I know what you feel – terrible longing with dark emptiness. And yet, He is the one in love with you.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
The biggest disease in North America is busyness.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
