Accept all as from God…
Be silent, endure, and accept all as from God, that you may learn to know yourself thereby.
–Johannes Tauler (1300–1361)
Blessed be God…
We must always say blessed be God.
–Saint Jeanne Jugan (1792-1879)
Jesus slept in my rocking boat…
Jesus slept in my boat, as was His wont. But how rarely will souls allow Him to sleep in peace. Wearied with making continual advances, our good Master readily avails Himself of the repose I offer Him, and in all probability will sleep on till my great and everlasting retreat; this, however, rather rejoices than grieves me.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Tell God everything…
If He gives me some task I am content and I thank Him. If he gives me nothing, I still thank Him. Since I do not deserve to receive anything more than that, and then I tell God everything that is in my heart. I tell him about my pains and my joys, and then I listen. If you listen, God will also speak to you. For with the good Lord, you have to both speak and listen. God always speaks to you when you approach him plainly and simply.
–Saint Catherine Laboure (1806-1876)
No problem free life for anyone…
Why are you upset when things don’t go the way you wish? Who gets everything his way? I don’t. You don’t. No one does. Not one person on earth — not even a king or a pope — has a problem free life.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
Let life alone…
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
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