Pondering Tidbits of Truth - November 18, 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.

 

 

 

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI)

"God’s love can only unleash its power when it is allowed to change us from within. We have to let it break through the hard crust of our indifference, our spiritual weariness, our blind conformity to the spirit of this age. Only then can we let it ignite our imagination and shape our deepest desires." 

(From Signs of New Life: Homilies on the Church’s Sacraments)

 

 

St. Anthony Mary Claret

 "...the most important point on which depends your whole welfare in the spiritual life: this point is that one must tread in the footsteps which Jesus Christ left before us, and keeping Him faithful company, patiently bear the desolation and affliction in one’s spirit, pain and hardships in one’s body, outrages, injuries, ill-will and persecution from whatever source they come. One who has no willingness to walk this road will never find God, and much less will he come to a pure and perfect love for Him."

(From The Golden Key to Heaven)

 

 Father Thomas Dubay, S.M.

“The excessive multiplication of vocal prayers (even aside from time of mental prayer) can likewise impede growth. There are people who get into a set habit of adding litany upon litany, devotion upon devotion, to the point where they leave little or no time for God to give what He wants to give. They do not understand contemplation, and they think that unless they are vocalizing, they are not praying.”

 (From Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross and the Gospel on Prayer)

 

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