Nothing in this world but God can fill our heart or fully satisfy our desires … the desires of the human heart cannot be satisfied with the goods of this world, because only the grace of God can quench the thirst of our desires.
–Saint Innocent of Alaska (1797-1879)
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
–Soren Kierkegaard (1830-1855)
The soul may take dryness and darkness as fortunate symptoms: symptoms that God is freeing her from herself. He is disentangling her from the activity of her faculties. Probably she would have been able to acquire much through this, her own activity, but never as completely, perfectly, and securely as she does now since God takes her by the hand. He is leading her in the darkness… by ways that she herself, in the happiest of wanderings while using her own eyes and feet, would never have succeeded in finding.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
The worst thing in the world is not sin; it is the denial of sin by a false conscience – for that attitude makes forgiveness impossible. The unforgivable sin is the denial of sin.
–Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Besides physical hunger, people have another hunger, one that cannot be satisfied with ordinary food. It is the hunger for life, hunger for love (and) hunger for eternity.
–Pope Francis (1936- June 19, 2014
The inward stirring and touching of God makes us hungry and yearning; for the Spirit of God hunts our spirit: and the more it touches it, the greater our hunger and our craving.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293- 1381)
