contemplation

“If you don’t pray, you will inevitably become either depressed or inflated – or bounce back-and-forth between the two. You will either be habitually depressed or obsessed with your own ego.” ~Ronald Rolheiser, paraphrasing Robert Moore

“Every one of us needs half an hour of prayer a day, except when we are busy – then we need an hour.” ~St. Frances de Sales

“We’re being called to be a non-violent, safe, protective person – honoring the wholeness of life, and the mystery of life, and the happiness of life – and then when suffering does occur, we’re to do our best to lessen it, and if possible remove it, but in an inner peace, not dependent on…

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~Mother Teresa

Heavenly Father, please join my prayers with your prayers. Into your hands I commend my spirit. Thy will, not mine, be done.* ~Anonymous *Originally taught to me by my spiritual director as: God, please join my prayers for this person with your prayers for this person.

“Consolation will be coming back a lot sooner than the desolation wants us to believe.”~Fr. Timothy Gallagher

They preached the gospel… strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said. ~Acts 14:21-22

“All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to…

“To attempt to make spirituality a private affair is to reject part of our very nature and walk inside of a lonliness that God himself has damned.” ~Ronald Rolheiser

“We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.” ~St. Thomas Aquinas