Tuesday, September 20, 2005

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
The devil will try to upset you by accusing you of being unworthy of the blessings that you have received. Simply remain cheerful and do your best to ignore the devils nagging. If need be even laugh at the absurdity of the situation. Satan, the epitome of sin itself, accuses you of unworthiness! When the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future!
-- St. Theresa of Avila

Monday, September 19, 2005

My little children, your hearts are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of Heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the souls and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun.
-- St. John Vianney
Never address your words to God while you are thinking of something else.
-- St. Teresa of Avila
It is never true that we have no time to meditate; the less one thinks of God, the less time there will always be for Him. The time one has for anything depends on how much we value it. Thinking determines the use of time; time does not rule over thinking! The problem of spirituality is never, then, a question of time; it is a problem of thought. For it does not require much time to make us saints; it requires only much love.
-- Bishop Fulton Sheen
The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.
-- Pope St. Gregory the Great
Faith is to believe in what we do not see, and the reward of faith is to see what we believe.
-- St. Augustine

Start collecting treasures!!

Praise be to our Lord Jesus Christ!!
Lets start collecting pearls of wisdom that God gave to many men & women across the centuries, as they spent time with Him.
May these pearls reflect the beauty of their creator in His creation..... and draw them closer to Him!!