Prayer and love

"If there were only a sufficient volume of prayer and love--the prayer that expresses love and the love that expresses prayer--in the world, then the dark cloud that weighs down on us would not only be pierced here and there to let in the light, but would be dissipated, and the world as a whole would be open once again to the infinite skies..."

--Rev. Gerald Vann, O.P. in The High Green Hills 

The will of God

"The will of God is itself the better part. There is nothing more to do then to let it act and abandon ourselves to it, blindly, with perfect confidence."

--Father Jean C. J. d'Elbee in I Believe in Love

God before our eyes

‘I am with you till the consummation of the world’, says our Lord to his Apostles. The Apostles in all the trials they had to endure could well say with truth that the Lord was with them. Being so fervent, so careful in the practice of the presence of God, they considered God constantly before their eyes. Let us endeavor in all our trials to have God before our eyes; the neglect of this practice has been the reason of so many faults.

Let us have God before our eyes day and night and we shall advance in perfection.

--Saint Charles of Mount Argus, C.P.

Kindnesses

"Great persons are able to do great kindnesses."

--Miguel de Cervantes

Given to us

"We give so little when we should give so much--five barley loaves when two hundred pennyworth would not be sufficient--but in the last resort we cannot of ourselves give anything at all because there is nothing at all that we ourselves have not received.  We can give even the barley loaves because they were given to us to give."

--Rev. Gerald Vann, O.P. in The High Green Hill  

All will be well

"To feel that everything is in God's hands, in Love's hands, is to feel convinced that somehow in the end all well be well:  to feel that somehow out of evil good will come in the end, and that in the end beauty will rise from the ashes of ugliness."

--Rev. Gerald Vann O.P. in The High Green Hill

He loves

"He loves, He hopes, He waits. If  He came down on our altars on certain days only, some sinner, on being moved to repentance, might have to look for Him, and not finding Him, might have to wait. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep him waiting one instant."

--Saint Peter Julian Eymard