Pondering Tidbits of Truth - July 20, 2023

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.

St. Catherine of Siena

“There are two goals, vice and virtue, and both require perseverance. If you would reach life, you must persevere in virtue, and if you would reach eternal death, persevere in vice.”

(From The Dialogue)

 

David Torkington

“[With respect to prayer] the important point to remember is there is no magic formula no infallible method or technique. There are just hundreds of different ways of prayer to do one and the same thing. A means of prayer is good for you if it helps you, here and now, to keep gently turning your heart back to God. What might help you at the beginning of your spiritual journey may be of no use later. What helps in the morning may not help in the evening. What helps you one minute might not help you in the next. So please move from one method to another with complete freedom. Remember that these methods are only means…methods of prayer change as people change and as prayer develops with the years. Remember the words of Dom John Chapman, ‘Pray as you can, not as you can't’.”

(From The Primacy of Loving – The Spirituality of the Heart)

 

St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“We fear the future because we are wasting today.”

(From Mary’s Mantle)