Quiet Moments September 2009
All the "Quiet Moments" quotes from the September 2009 issue of Catholic Digest.
"God sustains every soul and dwells in it substantially, even though it may be that of the greatest sinner in the world. This union between God and creatures always exists."~St. John of the Cross
"God walks amid the pots and pans."~St. Teresa of Ávila
"Pray as you can and do not pray as you can't. Take yourself as you find yourself; start from that."~Dom Chapman
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up."~Mark Twain
"No one is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."~Henry Ward Beecher
"There is nothing better in the world than to be in the grace of God."~St. Josemaría Escrivá
"The true road to personal improvement is not miraculous; it is slow and calls for a great deal of perseverance, but it is indeed possible to progress along this road, and your effort will be amply repaid."~David Fischman
"[Mary's birth] constitutes a fundamental stage for the Family of Nazareth, cradle of our redemption, an event that touches all of us, because every gift that God has given her, the Mother, He has given thinking also of each one of us, her children."~Benedict XVI
"The steps of Faith fall on the seeming void, and find the rock beneath."~John Greenleaf Whittier
"Pray for a good harvest, but keep on plowing."~Nancy Otto
"All history is incomprehensible without Christ."~Ernest Renan
"Will and I could hardly wait for the morning to come to get at something that interested us. That's happiness."~Orville Wright
"Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and by petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God."~Philippians 4:6
"The most powerful weapon on Earth is the human soul on fire."~Ferdinand Foch
"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."~Psalm 34:18
"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"~Horace
"Is this not the true romantic feeling: not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?"~Thomas Wolfe
"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise."~Anne Brontë
"True peace is born of doing the will of God, and bearing with patience the sufferings of this life, and does not come from following one's own whim or selfish desire, for this always brings, not peace and serenity, but disorder and discontent."~John XXIII
"Patience is also a form of action."~Auguste Rodin
"Oh, the comfort--the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person--having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away."~Dinah Craik, from 'A Life for a Life'
"See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls."~Mother Teresa
"We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough."~Romare Bearden
"The more people know, the more thy forgive."~Confucius
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."~Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious."~Martin Luther
"Every leaf speaks
bliss to me,
Fluttering from the
autumn tree."~Emily Brontë
"Nothing is so important as human life, as the human person. Above all, the person of the poor and the oppressed...Jesus says that whatever is done to them He takes as done to Him. That bloodshed, those deaths, are beyond all politics: They touch the very heart of God."~Oscar Romero
"A spiritual life is simply a life in which all that we do comes from the center, where we are all anchored in God: a life soaked through and through by a sense of God's reality and claim, and self-given to the great movement of God's will."~Evelyn Underhill
"God sustains every soul and dwells in it substantially, even though it may be that of the greatest sinner in the world. This union between God and creatures always exists."~St. John of the Cross
"God walks amid the pots and pans."~St. Teresa of Ávila
"Pray as you can and do not pray as you can't. Take yourself as you find yourself; start from that."~Dom Chapman
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up."~Mark Twain
"No one is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."~Henry Ward Beecher
"There is nothing better in the world than to be in the grace of God."~St. Josemaría Escrivá
"The true road to personal improvement is not miraculous; it is slow and calls for a great deal of perseverance, but it is indeed possible to progress along this road, and your effort will be amply repaid."~David Fischman
"[Mary's birth] constitutes a fundamental stage for the Family of Nazareth, cradle of our redemption, an event that touches all of us, because every gift that God has given her, the Mother, He has given thinking also of each one of us, her children."~Benedict XVI
"The steps of Faith fall on the seeming void, and find the rock beneath."~John Greenleaf Whittier
"Pray for a good harvest, but keep on plowing."~Nancy Otto
"All history is incomprehensible without Christ."~Ernest Renan
"Will and I could hardly wait for the morning to come to get at something that interested us. That's happiness."~Orville Wright
"Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and by petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God."~Philippians 4:6
"The most powerful weapon on Earth is the human soul on fire."~Ferdinand Foch
"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."~Psalm 34:18
"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"~Horace
"Is this not the true romantic feeling: not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?"~Thomas Wolfe
"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise."~Anne Brontë
"True peace is born of doing the will of God, and bearing with patience the sufferings of this life, and does not come from following one's own whim or selfish desire, for this always brings, not peace and serenity, but disorder and discontent."~John XXIII
"Patience is also a form of action."~Auguste Rodin
"Oh, the comfort--the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person--having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away."~Dinah Craik, from 'A Life for a Life'
"See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls."~Mother Teresa
"We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough."~Romare Bearden
"The more people know, the more thy forgive."~Confucius
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."~Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious."~Martin Luther
"Every leaf speaks
bliss to me,
Fluttering from the
autumn tree."~Emily Brontë
"Nothing is so important as human life, as the human person. Above all, the person of the poor and the oppressed...Jesus says that whatever is done to them He takes as done to Him. That bloodshed, those deaths, are beyond all politics: They touch the very heart of God."~Oscar Romero
"A spiritual life is simply a life in which all that we do comes from the center, where we are all anchored in God: a life soaked through and through by a sense of God's reality and claim, and self-given to the great movement of God's will."~Evelyn Underhill