Recent Favorite Quotes!

"What is important is that each of us begins to trust in our own beauty and our capacity to do beautiful things"

~Becoming Human

"To be human is to accept ourselves just as we are, with our own history, and to accept others as they are. To be human means to accept history as it is and to work, without fear, towards greater openness, greater understanding, and a greater love of others. To be human is not to be crushed by reality, or to be angry about it or to try to hammer it into what we think it is or should be, but to commit ourselves as individuals, and as a species, to an evolution that will be for the good of all.

~Becoming Human

"Let us thoroughly persuade ourselves that God can be found everywhere without effort, because he is always present to those who seek him with their whole heart, though he may not always cause his divine presence to be felt."

~Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade

"To fall in love with God is the greatest of romances, to seek Him the greatest adventure, to find Him the greatest human achievement."

~St. Augustine

"The gift of wisdom leads us to peace: the interior peace of the soul who, having tasted God, gives itself to Him without reserve, in complete surrender to His divine will; the serene peace of one who, seeing God in all things, accepts the hardships of life without being disturbed, adoring God's providence in all....

All Christians are children of God by grace, but here we are considering the special reward which we might call a superabundance of the grace of adoption, an experience by which the soul not only knows, but even feels and tastes that it is a child of God. It is the savory sense of divine filiation which is born in the soul under the influence of the gift of wisdom. 'The Spirit Himself giveth testimony to our spirit, that we are the sons of God' (Rom 8:16); these words of St. Paul become a living reality, a delightful experience; the soul feels itself called a child of God, not by men, but by God Himself; no audible voice speaks to it, but the more it feels drawn by God and enjoys Him in intimate union, so much the more does it feel that He is its Father and that, in very truth, it is His Child."

~Divine Intimacy, 314.2