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Needed by others…
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
The love of God…
The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror-like, each soul reflects the other.
–Dante (c. 1265 – 1321)
Love my fellow Christian…
What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
No enemy except yourself…
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
Truly loves his enemy…
A man truly loves his enemy when he is not offended by the injury done to himself, but for love of God feels burning sorrow for the sin his enemy has brought on his own soul, and proves his love in a practical way.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
God is compassion…
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Love never hates…
Love never hates anyone, never reproves anyone, never condemns anyone, never grieves anyone, never abhors anyone, neither faithful nor infidel nor stranger nor sinner nor fornicator, nor anyone impure, but instead it is precisely sinners, and weak and negligent souls that it loves more, … imitating Christ Who called sinners, and ate and drank with them.
–Abba Ammonas (Desert Father)
Our part to seek…
It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Think little of yourself…
If you think little of yourself, you will have peace wherever you live.
–Abba Poemen (340-450)
All graces given…
All graces given to those outside the Church are given them for the purpose of bringing them inside the Church.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
A person’s soul…
A person’s soul should be clean, like a mirror reflecting light. If there is rust on the mirror his face cannot be seen in it. In the same way, no one who has sin within him can see God. But if you will you can be healed. Hand yourself over to the doctor, and he will open the eyes of your mind and heart. Who is to be the doctor? It is God, who heals and gives life through his Word and wisdom.
–Saint Theophilus of Antioch (Second Century)
God is seen by…
God is seen by those who have the capacity to see him, provided that they keep the eyes of their mind open. All have eyes, but some have eyes that are shrouded in darkness, unable to see the light of the sun. Because the blind cannot see it, it does not follow that the sun does not shine. The blind must trace the cause back to themselves and their eyes. In the same way, you have eyes in your mind that are shrouded in darkness because of your sins and evil deeds.
–Saint Theophilus of Antioch (Second Century)
Our life and death…
Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ.
–Saint Anthony of Egypt (c. 251-356)
Wait in hope…
It is not enough for us, then, to be content with his first coming; we must wait in hope of his second coming… He first came in the order of divine providence to teach men by gentle persuasion, but when he comes again they will, whether they wish it or not, be subjected to his kingship.
–Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 313-386)
Concern with children…
With us everything should be secondary compared to our concern with children, and their upbringing in the instruction and teaching of the Lord.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Educate our children…
We are so concerned with our children’s schooling and worldly success, if only we were equally zealous in bringing them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. This then, is our task: to educate both ourselves and our children in godliness, otherwise what answer will we have before Christ’s judgement seat?
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Ignorance of scripture…
For from ignorance of the Scriptures have the countless evils of our time arisen; from this ignorance the plague of heresies has broken out among us so violently; from this ignorance so many live negligent lives. Just as men deprived of daylight would not walk straight, so those who do not look to the shining of the Holy Scriptures must needs be frequently sinning as they are walking in the worst of darkness.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Time for repentance…
Since we know these things and are well aware of that terrible day and of that fire, and have in mind those terrible torments, let us turn aside at last from the path on which we have strayed. For the hour will come when the theater of this world will be dissolved, after which there will be no more contending for the prize, no more exertions to be made after the end of this life, no more crowns to be merited after the collapse of this theater. This is the time for repentance, that the time of judgment.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Holy Scripture is…
Holy Scripture is the table of Christ, from whence we are nourished, from whence we learn what we should love and what we should desire, to whom we should have our eyes raised.
–Saint Alcuin (c. 735-804)
The Lord is with us…
The fire rages, but the Lord is with us in tribulation. If God is with us, who can be against us? Furthermore, if he rescues us, who can snatch us out of his hand? Who can take us from his grasp? Finally, if he glorifies us, who can make us inglorious? If he glorifies us, who can humiliate us?
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Writing a fine sermon…
Holy Scripture often counsels preachers of one thing which they practice little, not because they will not but because they cannot. They are strongly exhorted to make use of contemplation and prayer, and this is the last thing they practice, for they have enough work to do in writing a fine sermon, even if they do not feel dissatisfied and unhappy about it in the end. Oh what vexation of spirit it is when tears come to the eyes, grace to the heart, recollection to the soul, and sighs and sobs to the breast, to be obliged to set them all aside for the sake of study!
–Francisco de Osuna (1497-1541)
Cleave to God…
For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: ‘Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.’ Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Distribute wealth…
If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.
–Saint Basil the Great (330-379)
Don’t worry about…
Don’t worry about tomorrow because the very same Heavenly Father who takes care of you today will have the same thought tomorrow and always.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
Continue to love Jesus…
Continue to love Jesus and make an effort to love Him more and more, without desiring to know anything else.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
The root of all evil…
The root of all evil is ‘I’, ‘Me,’ ‘Mine.’
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
Suffering and humility…
Together with the grace of suffering, spiritual tempests bring the grace of humility, a new, deep humility that hollows out in the soul a void so immense that God fits into it.
–Luis M. Martinez (1881-1956)
Silence that imitates Jesus…
To be quiet then, to choose not to excuse ourselves when we could, through love of humility, is a silence that imitates Jesus in His Passion.
–Luis M. Martinez (1881-1956)
Communication with God…
Little by little, words disappear, and our communication with God becomes the divine communication of silence.
–Luis M. Martinez (1881-1956)
Silence is not…
Silence is not classified as a virtue, but it is the atmosphere in which virtues develop.
–Luis M. Martinez (1881-1956)
We are to love God…
We are to love God, then, because he loved us first. [1 Jn 4:19] The Passion on Calvary is a supreme declaration of love. It was to redeem us that you suffered so much, O Jesus. The least of your acts has infinite worth, since it is one of God’s acts, and would have been more than ample enough to redeem a thousand worlds, to redeem all possible worlds. But you suffered so much because you wanted to make us holy, to bear our burdens and to draw us into loving you freely. Loving is the most powerful way to attract love, loving is the most powerful way to make oneself loved. It is impossible for us to love him and not imitate him, to love him and not want to be the way he was, do what he did, suffer and die in torment because he suffered and died in torment. It is impossible to love him and want to be crowned with roses when he was crowned with thorns. We must love him as he has loved us.
–Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916)
Look to God in ourselves…
Give ourselves entirely…
Do too much…
Maintain interior silence…
Generosity is…
Generosity is at the heart of the Christian life, just as it is at the heart of the Gospel. For it is often through our generosity that we are able to bring the love of God to life in others in very real and tangible ways. God is by his very nature generous. God wants to convince us of his generosity, and in turn wants us to live generous lives.”
–Matthew Kelly (1973-
Prayer is like…
Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.
–Matthew Kelly (1973-
Hard to repent…
It is hard to repent, because we find it hard to trust God to be merciful; because we shield ourselves from recognizing our own sinfulness; and because the murky realm of our sins is something we don’t even understand very well.
–Frederica Mathewes-Green (1952-
Your prayer-room…
The apostle [Paul] teaches us to pray anywhere, while the Savior says Go into your room – but you must understand that this “room” is not the room with four walls that confines your body when you are in it, but the secret space within you in which your thoughts are enclosed and where your sensations arrive.That is your prayer-room, always with you wherever you are, always secret wherever you are, with your only witness being God.
–Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-397)
Pray urgently and often…
Jesus told us to pray urgently and often, so that our prayers should not belong and tedious but short, earnest and frequent. Long elaborate prayers overflow with pointless phrases, and long gaps between prayers even stretch out into complete neglect.
–Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-397)
Prayer is a groan…
Prayer is a groan.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Prayer is sitting…
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.
–Richard Rohr (1943-
God is always bigger…
God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.
–Richard Rohr (1943-
Understanding is a…
Understanding is a special enlightenment that enables us to see and penetrate the beauty and perfection of the mysteries of faith. We may listen to sermons, we may read widely; yet we can remain ignorant of these divine mysteries if we lack the gift of understanding.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Hunger and thirst…
We might possibly reach a saturation point when it comes to our quest for wealth and honors, but when it comes to loving God, how can we ever say, ‘I have enough?’ No limits can ever be set to our hunger and thirst for Him.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Cultivate peace…
Cultivate peace; be deaf to your too prolific imagination; its great activity not only injures the health of your body, but introduces aridity into your soul. You consume yourself to no purpose; peace and interior sweetness are destroyed by your restlessness. Think you God can speak in those soft and tender accents that melt the soul, in the midst of such a tumult as you by your incessant hurry of thought? Be quiet, and He will soon be heard. Indulge but a single scruple; to be scrupulously obedient.
–François Fénèlon (1651-1715)
Love God…
Don’t be afraid of what God has in store for you – love God very much for He wants to do you a great deal of good.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Persevere in prayer…
He taught them only the seven petitions of the Our Father in which all our spiritual and temporal needs are contained, and said nothing further about numerous other kinds of prayers and ceremonies. On the contrary, he urged them not to use many words in their prayers, since our Father in heaven surely knows what we need (Mt 6:7–8). Only one thing did he stress with special emphasis: that we should persevere in prayer.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Strive in prayer…
You should strive in your prayer for a pure conscience, a will that is wholly with God, and a mind truly set upon Him.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Confidence in God alone…
God wishes us not to rest upon anything but His infinite goodness; do not let us expect anything, hope anything, or desire anything but from Him, and let us put our trust and confidence in Him alone.
–Saint Charles Borromeo (1538-1584)
Settle little store by consolations…
Set little store by consolations and tenderness in devotion, and do not be elated when the Lord gives them nor disconsolate when he withholds them. When I hear men of learning and intelligence making such a fuss because God is not giving them feelings of devotion, it revolts me to listen to them: they should master themselves and go on their way.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Prayer is a…
Prayer is a pasturage, a field, wherein all the virtues find their nourishment, growth, and strength.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Approach God with…
When you come before God in prayer, be in your thought like an ant, like something crawling on the ground, like a child lisping. And in his presence make no pretence of knowledge. Approach God rather with the heart of a child. Go into his presence to receive the loving care with which parents look after their little children.
–Saint Isaac of Syria (Seventh Century)
Pray to acquire tears…
First of all, pray to acquire tears, in order to soften with mourning the savageness of your soul. You will then easily confess with honesty before the Lord all the sins that you have committed and you shall receive forgiveness from Him. Use your tears to succeed in every request of yours. For the Lord is greatly pleased when you pray with tears. If during your prayer you shed fountains of tears, do not pride yourself that you are above many others. This is not your accomplishment; it is assistance for your prayer from the Lord, so that you will be able to thus confess your sins willingly and appease Him. When you believe that you do not need tears in your prayer for your sins, consider how far you have drifted away from God, when “you should constantly be near Him” and then you will weep more fervently.
–Saint Nilus of Sinai (d. 430)
Pray as you were taught…
Do not pray for your desires to be realized, because they certainly do not agree with the will of God; but rather, as you were taught, say in your prayer: “Let Your Will be done” (Matt 6:10), and for every single thing, you should likewise ask God that His Will be done, because He wants whatever is best and beneficial for your soul.
–Saint Nilus of Sinai (d. 430)
Pray with joy…
If you are patient, you will always pray with joy. Strive to keep your mind deaf and mute during the hour of prayer. Only thus will you be able to pray.
–Saint Nilus of Sinai (d. 430)
See His face…
How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him. He gives Himself to you, not only that you may see Him, but also to be your food and nourishment.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Die of love…
How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?
— Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Christ has no body…
Christ has no body now but yours; no hands, no feet on earth, but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world; Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good; Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Condition of our soul…
Let us meditate today on the condition of our soul. Are we making a sincere effort to rectify our intentions, to sanctify our daily responsibilities? There are things we fail to remember, not because we have short memories but because we are short of love. The person in love does not forget!
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
A mystery does not need…
A mystery does not need to be proved, but simply proclaimed. It would not be a wholly divine mystery if you added to it anything of your own. Besides, the reason it is called a mystery is that we cannot penetrate its depths.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
The burden of our cross…
The more steadfastly and patiently we bear the burden of our cross, the more abundantly are the gifts of God, obtained by the Cross of Christ, granted unto us.
–Saint Philaret of Moscow (1782-1867)
Prayer is pure elevation…
Prayer is a pure elevation of our minds to God, believing that he is more in us than we are in ourselves.
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
What we do…
What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.
–Richard Rohr (1943-
Prayer must lead us…
Prayer must lead us beyond mind, words, and ideas to a more spacious place where God has a chance to get in.
–Richard Rohr (1943-
We live ourselves…
We do not think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
–Richard Rohr (1943-
It takes a life-time…
Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: ‘saint.’ It a more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don’t get your diploma until you’re dead.
–Mother Angelica (1923-1916)
Be not afraid…
Be not afraid to tell Jesus that you love Him; even though it be without feeling, this is the way to oblige Him to help you, and carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
In times of aridity…
In times of aridity, when I am incapable of praying or practicing virtue, I seek little opportunities, mere trifles, to give pleasure to Jesus. For instance, a smile, a pleasant word when inclined to be silent and to show weariness. If I find no opportunities, I at least tell Him again and again that I love Him, that is not difficult and it keeps alive the fire in my heart. Even though this fire of love might seem extinct, I would still throw little straws upon the embers and I am certain that it would rekindle.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Prayer is truly…
Prayer is truly a heavenly armor, and is alone can keep safe those who have dedicated themselves to God. Prayer is the common medicine for purifying ourselves from the passions, for hindering sin and curing our faults. Prayer is an inexhaustible treasure, an unruffled harbor, the foundation of serenity,the root and mother of myriads of blessings.
–Saint Nektarios of Aegina (1846-1920)
Prayer is power…
Have confidence in prayer. It is the unfailing power which God has given us. By means of it you will obtain the salvation of the dear souls whom God has given you and all your loved ones. “Ask and you shall receive,” Our Lord said. Be yourself with the good Lord.
–Saint Peter Julian Eymard (1811-1868)
Completely silent prayer…
As my prayer became more attentive and inward I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent. I started to listen – which is even the further removed from speaking. I first thought that praying entailed speaking. I then learnt that praying is hearing, not merely being silent. This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.
–Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Speak to our Lord…
Saint Colette saw and spoke to our Lord as we speak to each other. How often do we come to church without knowing what we come to do, or what we wish to ask!
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Pray without ceasing…
We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives – that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.
–Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821)
To live with Christ…
What does it mean to live with Christ? To live with Christ means to dwell with Him in unity; and unity with Christ is nothing other than our love for Him, the desire of our hearts to ever contemplate Him, to ever prayerfully converse with Him, and to do only that which is pleasing to Him.
–Saint Seraphim of Sarov (1754-1833)
No lack of what to say…
Tell Him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others. If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subjects of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back; neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.
–François Fénelon (1651-1715)
Tell God all…
Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one’s heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell Him your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that He may sober them; tell Him your longings, that He may purify them; tell Him your dislikes, that He may help you conquer them; talk to Him of your temptations, that He may shield you from them: show Him the wounds of your heart, that He may heal them; lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability.
–François Fénelon (1651-1715)
Vocal prayer is…
Vocal prayer, without the heart attending it, is superstitious and wholly unprofitable. To pray without recollection in God and without love, is to pray as the heathen did, who thought to be heard for the multitude of their words.
–François Fénèlon (1651-1715)
What we call prayer…
When the time comes to present ourselves before His divine Goodness to speak to Him face to face, which is what we call prayer, simply the presence of our spirit before His and His before ours forms prayer whether or not we have fine thoughts or feelings…He is touched with the prayer of a soul so simple, humble and surrendered to His will.
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
Pray at all times…
There is no one who cannot pray – and pray at all times and in all places; by night or day, when hard at work or resting; in the country, at home, or when travelling.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Love and desire God…
We don’t love our parents because they belong to us; we love them because we belong to them. It is thus that we love and desire God: not that He may become our good, but because He is our good; not that He may become ours but because we are His. It is not as though He exists for us: we exist for Him.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
You can pray…
You can pray by putting yourself quite simply in touch with God. When one finds nothing more to say to Him but just knows He is there – that in itself is the best of prayers.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Being alone with God…
There can be no substitute in the spiritual life for being alone with God. There must be that part of spirituality which is private and individual – secret between me and my God. It is that daily attempt to become increasingly aware of the presence and the action of God in our lives and to know the growing desire within us for some kind of closeness to him.
–Basil Hume (1923-1999)
Source of renewal…
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
–Saint John Paul (1920-2005)
Receive Christ through prayer…
However hard we may try to know Christ without prayer, we would only know him as a Savior of people, a Redeemer of others, a Sanctifier of saints, a Justifier of sinners. We would remain deprived of all these gifts and graces. We will not receive them unless we first receive Christ through prayer within our lives. We should first make him at rest in our hearts so he may live in us. He should share everything with us and manage all our affairs.
–Matthew the Poor aka Matta El-Meskeen (1919-2006)
Being with God…
It is not necessary to always be meditating, not to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice this would be. What matters is being with Him, living with Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to love the poor, is a twenty four hour prayer.
–Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
The more you pray…
Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray – feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.
–Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Real prayer is…
Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.
–Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Make a new start…
It is a great art to succeed in having your soul sanctified. A person can become a saint anywhere. He can become a saint in Omonia Square [a notorious section of Athens], if he wants. At your work, whatever it may be, you can become a saint through meekness, patience, and love. Make a new start every day, with new resolution, with enthusiasm and love, prayer and silence — not with anxiety so that you get a pain in the chest.
–Saint Porphyrios (1906-1991)
Achieve union with God…
Union with God, then, is the spiritual height God calls everyone to achieve – any one, not only religious but any one, who chooses, who wills to seek this pearl of great price, who specializes in the traffic of eternal good, who says ‘yes’ constantly to God … The imitation of Christ in the lives of saints is always possible and compatible with every state of life. The saints did but one thing – the will of God. But they did it with all their might. We have only to do the same thing; and according to the degree of intensity with which we labor shall our sanctification progress.
–Blessed Miriam Teresa (1901-1927)
Patience and repentance…
But don’t be sad, my child. Don’t worry so much. Even though you have fallen again, get up again. You have been called to a heavenly road. It is not surprising for someone running to stumble. It just takes patience and repentance at every moment.
–Joseph the Hesychast (1897-1959)
Inner peace and happiness…
Divinely wise souls often infuriate the worldly-wise because they always see things from the Divine point of view. The worldly are willing to let anyone believe in God if he pleases, but only on condition that a belief in God will mean no more than belief in anything else. They will allow God, provided that God does not matter. But taking God seriously is precisely what makes the saint. As St. Teresa put it, “What is not God to me is nothing.” This passion is called snobbish, intolerant, stupid, and unwarranted intrusion; yet those who resent it deeply wish in their own hearts that they had the saint’s inner peace and happiness.
–Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Love makes saints…
For it does not require much time to make us saints; it requires only much love.
–Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Don’t call me a saint…
Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed so easily.
–Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
Prayers of saints…
The prayers of the Saints in heaven and of the just on earth are a perfume which never will be lost.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
Live for Christ…
They no longer live their life, but the life of Christ; they no longer suffer their own pain, but rather, the passion of Christ. Therefore they also rejoice in the life of grace that the Lord enkindles in other souls when the spark of divine love touches them and the wine of this love causes in them holy inebriation.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
Pray also in joy and abundance…
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
–Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
During painful times…
During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God– becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.
–Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906)
Death on the Cross…
Our Lord saved the world even more by His heroic love on the Cross than by His sermons. His words gave us light, pointed out the way for us to follow; His death on the Cross obtained for us the grace to follow this way.
–Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877–1964)
Result of prayer…
The last and highest result of prayer is not the securing of this or that gift, the avoiding of this or that danger. The last and highest result of prayer is the knowledge of God–the knowledge which is eternal life–and by that knowledge, the transformation of human character and of the world.
–George John Blewett (1873-1912)
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