Pondering Tidbits of Truth - February 14, 2019

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.

Father Anthony J. Paone, S.J.

Man’s earthly life is full of miseries and crosses. Wherever you turn, you will find a cross. If you carry it willingly, you will find greater strength in the cross, and it will lead you towards Heaven. If you bear it unwillingly, you only make it a greater burden than it already is; and you still have to bear it. One who runs away from the cross is only running toward another cross, perhaps a heavier one. There is no other road to Heaven except the way of the cross. No man can escape his cross.”

(From My Daily Bread)

Meister Eckhart 

“You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace…Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.”

(From Saving Wisdom: Theology in the Christian University by Brian W. Hughes)

St. Alphonsus Rodriguez

“The principal thing upon which we have to turn our attention, that we may mortify it and eradicate if from our hearts, is the predominant passion – that is, the affection, inclination, vice, or bad habit which reigns most in us, which makes us its captive, which brings us into greatest danger, and most frequently causes us to fall into grave transgressions. When the king is taken, the battle is won. And until we do this, we shall make no great advance in perfection.” 

(From A Year With The Saints by A Member of the Order of Mercy)