Pondering Tidbits of Truth
is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for
you to chew on from time to time.
Jean-Baptiste Chautard, O.C.S.O.
A preacher endowed with learning but of only mediocre piety
may be able to paint a picture of Christian Truth that will stir souls, bring
them a little closer to God, even increase their faith. But if one is to fill
souls with the life-giving savor of virtue, he must first have tasted the true
spirit of the Gospel and made it enter into the substance of his own life by
means of mental prayer.
(From The Soul of
the Apostolate)
Father Federick Faber
Kindness is the overflow of self on others. To be kind is to
put others in one’s place. Kindness has convinced more sinners than zeal,
eloquence or learning, and these three things have never converted anybody
without kindness having something to do with it. In a word, kindness makes us
as gods towards one another. It is the manifestation of this feeling in
apostolic men which draws sinners to them and brings them thus to their
conversion.
(From Spiritual
Conferences)
St. Vincent Ferrer
Have the heart of a mother whether you have to encourage
souls or scare them, show to them a heart full of tender charity, and let the
sinner feel that your language is inspired by it. If you want to be useful to
souls, begin by appealing to God with all your heart, asking Him to fill you
with charity which is the compendium of all the virtues, in order that by its
means you may efficaciously attain the end you have in view.
(From Treatise on the Spiritual
Life)
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