Morning Quotes:
"Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you
may believe, but believe that you may understand."
— Augustine of Hippo
"In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me."
— Augustine of Hippo
"You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord,
stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us
love. Let us run."
— Augustine of Hippo (Confessions (Oxford World's Classics))
"Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon
as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in
virtue. "
— Augustine of Hippo
"Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you."
— Augustine of Hippo
"The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home."
— Augustine of Hippo
"Love is the beauty of the soul."
— Augustine of Hippo
"It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves."
— Teresa of Ávila
"Thank God for the things that I do not own."
— Teresa of Ávila
"You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him."
— Teresa of Ávila
"Love turns work into rest."
— Teresa of Ávila
"Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, for
everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into
a long one."
— Teresa of Ávila
"The “interior castle” of the human soul, as Teresa of Avila called it, has many rooms,
and they are slowly occupied by God, allowing us time and room to grow."
— Dallas Willard (The Divine Conspiracy)
"St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause:
praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from
early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets
stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual
journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God
is distant or absent."
— Thomas Keating (Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit)
"To reach something good, it is useful to have gone astray."
— Teresa of Ávila
"Teresa of Avila says that the important thing in prayer is not to think much but to
love much. The head is not a bad place to start our prayer journey. But if prayer
stays there too long and does not begin to sink to the heart, it will inevitably become
arid and frustrating."
— David G. Benner (Opening to God: Lectio Divina and Life as Prayer)
"The business and method of mysticism is love."
— Evelyn Underhill (Mysticism: The Nature And Development Of Spiritual
Consciousness)
“How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin
primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our minds and hearts directed toward
God. The essence of the centered life is attention to God in all we think, say and do. It
is the growing realization of His presence in our most down-to-earth living.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved