God is faithful and will not let you be tried beyond your strength; but with the trial he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to bear it.
1 Corinthians 10:13
The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.
St. Jane Frances de Chantal
Nature is fleeting; we will outlive it. Even when all suns and mists are gone, each one of us will still be alive.
C.S. Lewis
After I recognized that there is a God, it was impossible for me not to live for him alone.
Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916)
If you want to follow me, you have to let me go first. — God
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In our heart, in the heart of each of you, let there be always the joyous certainty that the Lord is near, that He does not abandon us, that He is near to us and that He surrounds us with His love. Thank you!
Pope Benedict's last words at his last General Audience, today
There is need of a daily effort to live in the present moment, to accept myself constantly, with all my flaws and all my sins, all my disabilities and all my shortcomings, no matter what I am just now, knowing that God, who never changes, accepts and loves me.
Bishop Patrick Ahern (1919-2011)
He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
Saint John of the Cross
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There is no other remedy for this evil of giving up prayer than to begin again.
Saint Teresa of Avila
All my nothingness is drowned in the sea of your mercy. With the confidence of a child, I throw myself into your arms, O Father of mercy, to make up for the unbelief of so many souls who are afraid to trust in you.
Saint Faustina Kowalska
Give me such love for God and men, as will blot out all hatred and bitterness.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Just as no great travels are necessary to see the beauty of creation, so no great ecstasies are needed to discover the love of God. But you have to be still and wait so that you can realize that God is not in the earthquake, the storm, or the lightning, but in the gentle breeze with which he touches your back.
Henri Nouwen
Where God is unknown, nothing is known.
Saint John of the Cross
"Whether we realize it or not, in our hearts we yearn for God, and so when we come into contact with someone close to God, our hearts are moved."
-- Fr John Bartunek, LC
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I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.
Thomas Merton
I say to myself: "I will not mention him, I will speak in his name no more."
But then it becomes like fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding it in, I cannot endure it.
Jeremiah 20:9