Pondering Tidbits of Truth - March 10, 2022

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.

 

 

 Catherine de Heuck Doherty, Servant of God

“True, silence is sometimes the absence of speech - but it is always the act of listening. The mere presence of noise (which is empty of our listening to the voice of God) is not silence. A day filled with noise and voices can be a day of silence, if the noises become for us the echo of the presence of God. When we speak of ourselves and are filled with ourselves, we leave silence behind. When we repeat intimate words of God that He has left within us, our silence remains intact.”

(From The Celebration of Discipline)

 

St. Peter Chrysologus

“True love of God finds nothing hard, nothing bitter, nothing difficult. What weapon, what wounds, what pains, what death, can conquer true love? As an impenetrable armor it defies all attacks, and fears not even death, but triumphs over all things.”

(From Sermon 147)

 

Venerable Louis of Granada, O.P.

"Reflect on this. Men act freely when they sin, for no man is forced to do wrong. But when they have fallen, they cannot rise without the Divine assistance. Now, God owes this to no man. It is His gratuitous gift when he restores a sinner to His favor. Hence, He but exercises His justice when he permits him to remain in his misery, and even to fall lower."

(From The Sinner’s Guide)