Lectio Divina

“Joy is prayer – Joy is strength – Joy is love – Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” ~Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace, and your soul in the joy of Christ.” ~Thomas Merton

“God comes to you disguised as your life.” ~Paula D’Arcy

“The saints are like a group of trees, each bearing different fruit, but watered from the same source. The practices of one saint differ from those of another, but it is the same Spirit that works in all of them.” ~Abba John the Dwarf

“Let us take refuge in the Lord and ascend a little to the place where thoughts dry up and stirrings vanish, where memories fade away and the passions die, where human nature becomes serene and is transformed as it stands in the other world.” ~St. Isaac the Syrian

“On the path to eternal fulfillment, which never ends, we all die as beginners.” ~James Finley

“God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction. ~Meister Eckhart

“We find meaning by abiding in God, faithfully trusting in God’s mercy and grace. This is his own working in us, and of his goodness he opens the eye of our understanding, by which we have sight, sometimes more and sometimes less, according to our God-given ability to receive.” ~Julian of Norwich

“I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and anyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” ~John 11:25-26

“If forgiveness needs to be bought or paid for, then it is not authentic forgiveness at all, which must be a free letting go.” ~Richard Rohr