Category: Quotes

Be faithful in small things because it is in them

that your strength lies. ~ Mother Teresa

“If we let Christ into our lives,
we lose nothing,
absolutely nothing of what makes life free,
beautiful, and great.
Only in this friendship
are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship
is the great potential of human existence truly revealed.”
~ Pope Benedict XVI

“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don’t agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ”— C.S. Lewis (Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer)

“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze!”
-St. Catherine of Sienna

“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
-St. Augustine

“The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.”
-St. Teresia Benedicta (Edith Stein)

“If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.” ~ Mother Teresa

“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves. The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace.” ~ Mother Teresa

Jesus said:

“Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts on them — I will show you what such a person is like.

“Such a person is like the man who, when he built a house, dug, and dug deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built.

“But someone who listens and does nothing is like the man who built a house on soil, with no foundations; as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!” Luke 6:47-49

Pope Benedict XVI, in his new book “Light of the World,” said that faith is the root that establishes communion with God and enables us to bind together authentically.

Jesus said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”

Here’s what GK Chesterton said of Christianity: “The civilization of antiquity was the whole world: and men no more dreamed of its ending than of the ending of daylight. They could not imagine another order unless it were in another world. The civilization of the world has passed away and those words have not passed away. In the long night of the Dark Ages feudalism was so familiar a thing that no man could imagine himself without a lord: and religion was so woven into that network that no man would have believed they could be torn asunder. Feudalism itself was torn to rags and rotted away in the popular life of the true Middle Ages; and the first and freshest power in that new freedom was the old religion. Feudalism had passed away, and the words did not pass away. The whole medieval order, in many ways so complete and almost cosmic a home for man, wore out gradually in its turn and here at least it was thought that the words would die. They went forth across the radiant abyss of the Renaissance and in fifty years were using all its light and learning for new religious foundations, new apologetics, new saints. It was supposed to have been withered up at last in the dry light of the Age of Reason; it was supposed to have disappeared ultimately in the earthquake of the Age of Revolution. Science explained it away; and it was still there. History disinterred it in the past; and it appeared suddenly in the future. To-day it stands once more in our path; and even as we watch it, it grows.”