Quotes Lent
is the time for spiritual self-examination, for taking
stock of oneself before God. With that in mind…. God
requires a faithful fulfilment of the merest trifle given
us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to
things to which we are not called. St Francis de
Sales Holiness
consists of doing the will of God with a smile. Mother
Teresa God often
works more by the illiterate seeking the things that are
God’s than by the learned seeking the things that
are their own. St Anselm It is his
long-term policy, I fear, to restore to them a new kind
of self-love – a charity and gratitude for all
selves including their own; when they have really learned
to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be
allowed to love themselves as their neighbours. CS
Lewis Monasteries
are houses of the soul, and their deepest language comes
from the depths of silence. Peter Levi Mysteries
are not dark shadows, before which we must shut our eyes
and be silent. On the contrary, they are dazzling
splendours, with which we ought to sate our gaze. A
Carthusian In order
to arrive at that which thou knowest not, Thou must
go by a way that thou knowest not, In order
to arrive at that which thou possesseth not Thou must
go by a way that thou possesseth not.
Very
often, when people first turn towards God and realise
that God loves them and that everything about them
matters to him, a wave of joyful emotion overwhelms them.
But actual faith is mostly the realisation that, even
though we don’t in the least deserve it, God
believes in us and finds us lovable. This is
astonishing. Philip Pare You have
made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till
they find their rest in you. Augustine of Hippo Be
simple; take our Lord’s hand and walk through things.
Fr Andrew SDC We don’t
call it sin today; we call it self-expression. Baroness
Stocks As thy
days, so shall thy strength be. Deuteronomy 33.25 Your
foolish fears about the future come from the devil.
Think only of the present, abandon the future to I can
resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde Laughter
is a property in man essential to his reason. Lewis
Carroll March
is also the month of Mothering Sunday, when we think of
motherhood in general…. Children
are the anchors that hold a mother to life. –
Sophocles What’s
done to children, they will do to society. Karl
Menninger For a
wife, take the daughter of a good mother. Fuller. Simply
having children does not make mothers. A mother
is a mother still, The
holiest thing alive.
Coleridge Her
children arise up, and call her blessed. Proverbs
31.28 What are
Raphael’s Madonna but the shadow of a mother’s
love, fixed in permanent outline forever? T W
Higginson George
Herbert said a good mother equalled a hundred
schoolmasters. |