“Take the risk of presenting what’s really going on in your heart to the Lord as a prayer.”
–Christopher West
Quotes
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” – Isaiah 55:8-9
Man Plans and God Laughs
Just when you think you have control over God, God confounds you – not because he’s being difficult, but because he is a God of the future, a God of adventure, a God of fuller life.
–Fr. Barron
Mission reminders: “In all circumstances…
…Jesus is with you, and Mary holds your hand.”
On the Meaning of Vocation
“Ask yourselves, young people, about the love of Christ. Acknowledge His voice resounding in the temple of your heart. Return His bright and penetrating glance which opens the paths of your life to the horizons of the Church’s mission. It is a taxing mission, today more than ever, to teach men the truth about themselves, about their end, their destiny, and to show faithful souls the unspeakable riches of the love of Christ. Do not be afraid of the radicalness of His demands, because Jesus, who loved us first, is prepared to give Himself to you, as well as asking of you. If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.”
–St. John Paul II
On the Life of a Missionary
The life of a missionary is not strewn with roses, in fact more with thorns; but with it all, it is a life full of happiness and joy when she thinks that she is doing the same work which Jesus was doing when He was on earth, and that she is fulfilling Jesus’ commandment: ‘Go and teach all nations!’
–Mother Teresa
true love.
Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn, Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!
–Saint John of the Cross