It is God’s will…
It is not God’s will that you should linger over pain, but that we should pass over it quickly to find joy that lasts and never ends.
— Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
Makers of our own crosses…
Men are generally the carpenters of their own crosses.
— Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Compassion asks us…
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. It is not surprising that compassion, understood as suffering with, often evokes in us a deep resistance and even protest.
— Henri Nouwen (1932-1996)
Pray by enduring…
You adore Him better by your silence them by your speeches. If you are incapable of anything whatever, then suffer. If you cannot pray by effort, then you will pray by endurance.
–Saint Jane Francis de Chantal (1572-1641)
Life full of brokenness…
Our life is full of brokenness – broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God’s faithful presence in our lives.
–Henri Nouwen (1932–1996)
Sorrow comes from…
To trust God means that we must know that whatever comes to us comes from his hands. If we do not see that sorrow comes from his hand and cannot get the comfort of his love from it, it may be because we do not acknowledge our joys as his gifts.
–Caryll Houselander (1901-1954)
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