Quotes

Fight courageously…

And of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus. We have discovered what we have to do. Christ has bound our enemies for us and weakened them that they cannot overcome us unless we so choose to let them. So we must fight courageously and mark ourselves with the sign of the most Holy Cross.
— Saint Catherine of Sienna (1347-1380)

All true devotion…

All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real love of God, though not always of the same kind; for that Love one while shining on the soul we call grace, which makes us acceptable to His Divine Majesty; when it strengthens us to do well, it is called Charity; but when it attains its fullest perfection, in which it not only leads us to do well, but to act carefully, diligently, and promptly, then it is called Devotion.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

Contemplation is a…

Contemplation is a science of love. It is an infused, loving knowledge of God.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)

Learn to deny yourself…

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)

On that stormy sea…

I spent nearly twenty years on that stormy sea. I had not joy in God and no pleasure in the world.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

More disconsolate…

You will cry and not be heard. That in which you sought and hoped to find relief will only make you more disconsolate. God will show you no sign of love, but will seem to turn from you in disdain… What then, ought you to do? There is nothing at which to be dismayed, but great need of courage. Do not feel miserable about the state you are in, but rather, rejoice in God’s love for you, although you may not realize it at the time. Do not depend on your feelings; they are often both misled and deceiving.
–Saint John of Avila (1500-1569)

Measure others by oneself…

It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)

When despair shows itself…

When despair shows itself, man is driven by the evil spirit, at whose instigation nothing is ever done well.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)

Measured by desire…

For spiritually, heaven is as close down as up, and up as down, behind as in front, in front as behind, on one side as on the other; so much so that whoever has a true desire to be in heaven, then in that moment he is in heaven spiritually. For the high road and the shortest road thither is measured by desire and not by yards.
–The Cloud of Unknowing (14th Century)

Deprivation of consolations…

So then – in the time of labors and persecutions, of insults and injuries inflicted by one’s neighbor, of mental conflicts and deprivation of spiritual consolations, by the Creator or by the creature (by the Creator in His gentleness, when He withdraws the feeling of the mind, so that it does not seem as if God were in the soul, so many are its pains and conflicts – and by fellow-creatures, in conversation or amusement, or when the soul thinks that it loves more than it is loved) – in all these things, I say that the soul perfected by humility says, “My Lord, behold Thy handmaid: be it done unto me according to Thy word, and not according to what I want with my senses.”
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

Desire by grace…

I know full well that the more the souls sees of God, the more it desires him, by his grace.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)

God is always trying…

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)

In confession…

If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)

Faith is to believe…

Faith is to believe what you do not see. The reward of faith is to see what you believe.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)

The path of humility…

Let us then follow Christ’s paths which he has revealed to us, above all the path of humility, which he himself became for us. He showed us that path by his precepts, and he himself followed it by his suffering on our behalf. In order to die for us – because as God he could not die – the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. The immortal One took on mortality that he might die for us, and by dying put to death our death. This is what the Lord did, this the gift he granted to us. The mighty one was brought low, the lowly one was slain, and after he was slain, he rose again and was exalted. For he did not intend to leave us dead in hell, but to exalt in himself at the resurrection of the dead those whom he had already exalted and made just by the faith and praise they gave him.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)

To convert somebody…

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Devotion is…

Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence; it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men’s hearts with a wondrous sweetness.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

The devil should do…

It is not surprising, then, that the devil should do everything possible to influence us to give up prayer or to pray badly, because he knows better than we do how terrible it is for hell and how impossible it is that God should refuse us what we ask Him for in prayer.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)

Only God can quench the thirst…

Nothing in this world but God can fill our heart or fully satisfy our desires … the desires of the human heart cannot be satisfied with the goods of this world, because only the grace of God can quench the thirst of our desires.
–Saint Innocent of Alaska (1797-1879)

Teach the young!

Do you want to do a good deed? Teach the young!
Do you want to perform a holy act? Teach the young!
Do you want to do a holy thing? Teach the young!
Truly, now and for the future, among holy things, this is the holiest.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)

The mystic longs…

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
–Soren Kierkegaard (1830-1855)

To give light…

It is a good thing to contemplate the truth, and better still to pass it on to others. To reflect the light is something more than simply to receive it. It is better to give light, than to shine under a bushel. By contemplation the soul is fed: by the apostolate, it gives itself away.
–Jean-Baptiste Chautard (1858-1935)

Looking for God…

Every man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.
–GK Chesterton (1874-1936)

Dryness and darkness…

The soul may take dryness and darkness as fortunate symptoms: symptoms that God is freeing her from herself. He is disentangling her from the activity of her faculties. Probably she would have been able to acquire much through this, her own activity, but never as completely, perfectly, and securely as she does now since God takes her by the hand. He is leading her in the darkness… by ways that she herself, in the happiest of wanderings while using her own eyes and feet, would never have succeeded in finding.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)

Help someone in distress…

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)

The denial of sin…

The worst thing in the world is not sin; it is the denial of sin by a false conscience – for that attitude makes forgiveness impossible. The unforgivable sin is the denial of sin.
–Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)

Criticism of others…

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)

Hunger for life, love…

Besides physical hunger, people have another hunger, one that cannot be satisfied with ordinary food. It is the hunger for life, hunger for love (and) hunger for eternity.
–Pope Francis (1936- June 19, 2014

Heroic Catholicism…

The days in which we live now require heroic Catholicism, not casual Catholicism. We can no longer be Catholics by accident, but instead be Catholics by conviction.
–Daniel Jenky (1947-

Catholic and apostolic…

Grounded in the power of the resurrection, there is nothing in this world, and nothing in Hell, that can ultimately defeat God’s one, true, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
–Daniel Jenky (1947-

Hungry and yearning…

The inward stirring and touching of God makes us hungry and yearning; for the Spirit of God hunts our spirit: and the more it touches it, the greater our hunger and our craving.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293- 1381)

Yearn deeply…

For it is no small thing that God is going to give to those who thus yearn (for God); no half-efforts will get them to the goal. What God is going to give them is not something he has made; he is going to give himself… Toil, then, to lay hold of God; yearn deeply for what you are going to possess forever.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)

Love the light…

Let us love the light, long to understand it and thirst after if so that led by it we may come to it, and there live for ever.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)

Holy desire…

The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)

The covenant of Baptism…

For this cause the Lord, who gives us our life, gave us the covenant of baptism, containing a type of life and death, for the water fulfils the image of death, and the Spirit gives us the promise of life… Like a tomb, the water receives the body, symbolizing death; while the Spirit pours in the quickening power, renewing our souls from the deadness of sin into their original life. This then is what it is to be born again of water and of the Spirit, the water bringing the necessary death while the Spirit creates life within us.
–Saint Basil the Great (330-379)

Through the Holy Spirit…

Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the status of adopted sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory – in a word, our being brought into a state of all fullness of blessing both in this world and in the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us.
–Saint Basil the Great (330-379)

Seek union with God…

Seek union with God and buoy yourself up with hope — that sure virtue! — because Jesus will illuminate the way for you with the light of his mercy, even in the darkest night.
–Saint Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975)

Discouragement is a sign…

Don’t give in to discouragement. If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about people’s opinions. Be obedient to truth.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)

A while since confession…

Don’t worry if it’s been a while since you’ve gone to confession—God is waiting to meet you there. Don’t settle for ashes alone when you can receive absolution and a fresh start!
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)

Before important action…

Before each important action, I will stop to consider for a moment what relationship it has to eternal life and what may be the main reason for my undertaking it: is it for the glory of God, or for the good of my own soul, or for the good of the souls of others? If my heart says yes, then I will not swerve from carrying out the given action, unmindful of either obstacles or sacrifices.
–Saint Faustina (1905-1938)

The will of God…

The will of God is the ultimate and only rule of action. God manifests His will in various ways. The will of God may in some cases be ascertained by the operations of the human mind, especially when under a religious or gracious guidance. But He reveals His will chiefly in His written word. And nothing can be declared to be the will of God, which is at variance with His
written or revealed will, which may also be called His positive will.
–François Fénèlon (1651-1715)

Keep in the presence of God…

One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the Presence of God; and, being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wonderings.
–Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)

Hold yourself in prayer…

Hold yourself in prayer before God, like a dumb or paralytic beggar at a rich man’s gate. Let it be your business to keep your mind in the presence of the Lord. If it sometimes wander and withdraw itself from Him, do not much disquiet yourself for that: trouble and disquiet serve rather to distract the mind than to re-collect it: the will must bring it back in tranquility. If you persevere in this manner, God will have pity on you.
–Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)

Do everything well…

Do not scrutinize so closely whether you are doing much or little, ill or well, so long as what you do is not sinful and that you are heartily seeking to do everything for God. Try as far as you can to do everything well, but when it is done, do not think about it. Try, rather, to think of what is to be done next. Go on simply in the Lord’s way, and do not torment yourself.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

When we suffer distractions…

Mental prayer is no less useful to us or less pleasing to God when we suffer many distractions. As a matter of fact, it could be more useful than if we had many consolations, because it means harder work for us. It suffices that we faithfully try to drive away the distractions, not allowing our spirit to dwell on them willingly.
–Saint Francis de Sales, (1567-1622)

Judge according to God…

We must not judge things according to our own liking, but according to that of God. This is a great secret, if we are holy according to our own will we will never be truly holy, we must be so according to God’s will.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

What value is it?

If an experience fails to engender humility, charity, mortiﬁcation, holy simplicity, and silence, etc., of what value is it?
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)

Distractions and restlessness…

We must not leave off our prayers because of distractions and restlessness of mind, although it seems useless to go on with them. He who perseveres for the whole of his accustomed time, gently recalling his mind to the subject of his prayer, merits greatly.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)

As the family goes…

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
–Saint John Paul (1920-2005)

There is an anger…

There is an anger which is engendered of evil, and there is an anger engendered of good. Hastiness of temper is the cause of the evil, divine principle is the cause of the good.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)

Falsehood separates us…

Falsehood – and only falsehood – separates us from God … False thoughts, false words, false feelings, false desires – Behold the aggregate of lies that leads us to non-being, illusion, and rejection of God.
–Saint Nicholas of Serbia (1880-1956)

You cannot heal…

You cannot heal what you do not first acknowledge.
–Richard Rohr (1943-

Dangerous to teach…

It is dangerous for anyone to teach who has not first been trained in the practical life. For if someone who owns a ruined house receives guests there, he does them harm because of the dilapidation of his dwelling. It is the same in the case of someone who has not first built an interior dwelling; he causes loss to those who come. By words one may convert them to salvation, but by evil behavior, one injures them.
–Saint Synkletike (a Desert Mother)

Christ is the way…

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

The way God has given us…

We’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

Every work of ours…

Every work of ours ought to be done both without and with moderation… for love toward God should be without measure, and that for the creature should be measured by that for God.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

Nothing not evil…

Nothing that is not in itself evil is to be put away because abuse of it is possible: to do so would shut the way to a great increase of God’s glory.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)

Never say or do anything until…

Never say or do anything until you have asked yourself whether it will be pleasing to God, good for yourself, and edifying to your neighbor.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)

Hypocrites in appearance…

Since love for God arises in the heart, that must be enlightened before the exterior man: for hypocrites first make bright what is outside, but the servants of God begin with what is within, for hypocrites love God in appearance but in their heart care only for themselves.
–Francisco de Osuna (1497-1541)

Recollection brings…

The chief characteristic of this spiritual exercise is to recollect the heart. This is the highest effect left by grace received by this means in the soul, from which it casts out all superfluous cares and idle thoughts which distract men and drive them outside themselves. Recollection brings them back and calms and pacifies them.
–Francisco de Osuna (1497-1541)

Strength to persevere…

The soul is like wax that, placed in the sunlight, melts for love of the ray that his Majesty infuses in it. Humility gives the soul strength to persevere, making known to it that as wax hardens when removed from the sunlight, so the soul, turning from God, will become hard again and lose the recollection and tender love it received from the Lord.
–Francisco de Osuna (1497-1541)

Have confidence in God…

We must have confidence in God, who is what He always has been, and we must not be disheartened because things turn out contrary to us.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)

Repent and do good…

Christ died for sinners; we must take heart, therefore, and hope that Paradise will be ours, provided only we repent of our sins, and do good.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)

Look at a crucifix…

If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a crucifix, and think that Christ has shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave his enemies, but prayed the Eternal Father to forgive them also.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)

Prayer is a lifting…

With me prayer is a lifting up of the heart, a look towards Heaven, a cry of gratitude and love uttered equally in sorrow and in joy; in a word, something noble, supernatural, which enlarges my soul and unites it to God.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

God does so much…

Everything seems to be a heavy burden, and rightly so, because it involves a war against ourselves. But once we begin to work, God does so much in the soul and grants it so many favors that all that one can do in this life seems little.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

Walk in the dark…

If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)

You can possess riches…

There is a difference between possessing poison and being poisoned. Pharmacists keep almost every kind of poison in stock for use on various occasions, yet they are not themselves poisoned because it is merely in their shops, not in their bodies. So, too, you can possess riches without being poisoned by them if you keep them in your home, purse or wallet, but not in your heart.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

Be attentive to God…

Be careful and attentive to all the matters God has committed to your care: since God has entrusted them to you, God wishes that you have great care for them. Do not be worried, that is, don’t exert yourself over them with uneasiness, anxiety and forwardness. Don’t be worried about them, for worry disturbs reason and good judgment and prevents us from doing well the very things about which we are worried in the first place.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

Our dearest friends…

The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.
–Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821)

That prayer is good…

Prayers, too, after reading, find the soul fresher, and more vigorously stirred by love towards God. And that prayer is good which imprints a clear idea of God in the soul; and the having God established in self by means of memory is God’s indwelling. Thus we become God’s temple, when the continuity of our recollection is not severed by earthly cares; when the mind is harassed by no sudden sensations; when the worshipper flees from all things and retreats to God, drawing away all the feelings that invite him to self-indulgence, and passes his time in the pursuits that lead to virtue.
–Saint Basil the Great (330-379)

Curb passions…

It is the part of a reasonable man not only to curb his passions to prevent them from coming to light either in word or deed, but also to rule them in such a way that everything is done by reason, nothing on impulse.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)

Afraid of one’s shadow…

But whoever is without the fear of God is often afraid of his own shadow. Fearfulness is the daughter of unbelief. A proud soul is the slave of fear; hoping in itself, in comes to such a state that it is startled by a small noise, and is afraid of the dark.
–Saint John Climacus (c. 525-606)

Food and drink…

For the good Creator made all things good and the Maker of the universe is one, Who made the heaven and the earth, the sea and all that is in them. Of which whatever is granted to man for food and drink, is holy and clean after its kind. But if it is taken with immoderate greed, it is the excess that disgraces the eaters and drinkers, not the nature of the food or drink that defiles them. For all things, as the Apostle says, are clean to the clean. But to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is clean, but their mind and conscience is defiled.
–Saint Leo the Great (c. 400-461)

Any hope of salvation…

If you have any hope of salvation; if you have the least thought of God, or any desire for good things to come; if you have any fear of the chastisements reserved for the impenitent, awake without delay, lift up your eyes to heaven, come to your senses, cease from your wickedness, shake off the stupor that enwraps you, make a stand against the foe who has struck you down. Make an effort to rise from the ground. Remember the good Shepherd who will follow and rescue you.
–Saint Basil the Great (330-379)

Prepare your heart…

Christ will come to you offering His consolation, if you prepare a fit dwelling for Him in your heart, whose beauty and glory, wherein He takes delight, are all from within. His visits with the inward man are frequent, His communion sweet and full of consolation, His peace great, and His intimacy wonderful indeed. Therefore, faithful soul, prepare your heart for this Bridegroom that He may come and dwell within you.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)

Turning to prayer…

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)

The humble live…

The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)

Ever-increasing progress…

It constantly happens that the Lord permits is a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler. When it is honest, and realizes what it is done, and returns, it makes ever-increasing progress in our Lord service.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

Advance in prayer…

I notice in some souls – there are not many because of our sins – that the more they advance in this kind of prayer and the gifts of our Lord, the more attention they pay to the needs of their neighbor.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

Take care of little faults…

We must take care of little faults: for he who once begins to go backward, and to make light of such defects, brings a sort of grossness over his conscience, and then goes wrong altogether.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

A life of gratitude…

A life of faith is a life of gratitude – it means a life in which I am willing to experience my complete dependence upon God and to praise and thank him unceasingly for the gift of being. A truly eucharistic life means always saying thanks to God, always praising God, and always being more surprised by the abundance of God’s goodness and love. How can such a life not also be a joyful life? It is the truly converted life in which God has become the center of all. There gratitude is joy and joy is gratitude and everything becomes a surprising sign of God’s presence.
–Henri Nouwen (1932-1996)

Freedom consists in…

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
–Saint John Paul (1920-2005)

Happiness is the…

Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith and acceptance; a quiet, tranquil realization of the love of God.
–Chief White Eagle (1917-2011)

The Gospel is harsh…

The Gospel is a harsh document; the Gospel is ruthless and specific in what it says; the Gospel is not meant to be re-worded, watered down and brought to the level of either our understanding or our taste. The Gospel is proclaiming something which is beyond us and which is there to stretch our mind, to widen our heart beyond the bearable at times, to recondition all our life, to give us a world view which is simply the world upside-down and this we are not keen to accept.
–Anthony Bloom (1914-2003)

Gospel teaching…

The whole teaching of the Gospel is really a teaching about loving. The fact that we fall short of it condemns us, but doesn’t make its declaration less true.
–Anthony Bloom (1914-2003)

The closer, the happier…

If God is God – and so he is – the hierarchy of happiness begins with him, not from the other end. The closer we are to God, the happier we are. The further away from him, the poorer.
–Carlo Carretto (1910-1988)

Never taken by surprise…

There is comfort in the fact that God can never be taken by surprise.
–Frank E. Gaebelein (1899-1983)

God’s plan…

Things were in God’s plan which I had not planned at all. I am coming to the living faith and conviction that – from God’s point of view – there is no chance and that the whole of my life, down to every detail, has been mapped out in God’s divine providence and makes complete and perfect sense in God’s all-seeing eyes.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)

Believe the incredible…

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
–Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)

Full of trust…

Jesus has shown me the only way that leads to the fire of divine love: it is that of a little child who, full of trust, falls asleep in his Father’s arms. –Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)

Voluntary expiatory suffering…

Thus, when someone desires to suffer, it is not merely a pious reminder of the suffering of the Lord. Voluntary expiatory suffering is what truly and really unites one to the Lord intimately. When it arises, it comes from an already existing relationship with Christ. For, by nature, a person flees from suffering.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)

Leave it with God…

And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
— Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)

The Lord knows best…

The Lord knows best what is needful for us. What He does, He does for our good. If we really knew just how much He loves us, we would always be willing to receive anything from His hand. We would receive the bitter and the sweet without distinction. Anything, yes everything would please us just because it came from Him.
–Frank Laubach (1884-1970)

Say grace before…

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
–GK Chesterton (1874-1936)

Confidence in God…

We can never have too much confidence in the good God who is so powerful and so merciful. We obtain from Him as much as we hope for.
–Saint Therese Lisieux (1873-1897)

Tumble into our graves…

Many are the rainbows, the sunbursts, the gentle breezes— and the hailstorms— we are liable to meet before, by the grace of God, we shall be able to tumble into our graves with the confidence of tired children into their places of peaceful slumber.
–Blessed Solanus Casey (1870-1957)

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