Pondering Tidbits of Truth - July 6, 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. Leonard of Port Maurice

"To be saved for all eternity, to be damned for all eternity, and to not make your every effort to avoid the one and make sure of the other, is something inconceivable."

(From The Little Number of Those Who Are Saved)

Lisa Brenninkmeyer

"Let’s take a closer look at the people Jesus loved in the Gospels. It wasn’t just the cleaned-up, spiritually open, nicely behaved people. Jesus loved the ones with scandalous sexual sins, the perfectionists, the dirty outcasts, the cheaters, the ones who were lying to themselves, and the ones who spent most of their lives ignoring Him."

(From Rest: 31 Days of Peace Devotional - (Daily Catholic Wisdom)

 

St. Vincent Ferrer, O.P.

"If you truly want to help the soul of your neighbor, you should approach God first with all your heart. Ask him simply to fill you with charity, the greatest of all virtues; with it you can accomplish what you desire." 

(From The Treatise on the Spiritual Life)

Pondering Tidbits Of Truth - April 1, 2021

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.

 

 

Venerable Bruno Lanteri

“Remember that we do not acquire holiness in twenty-four hours nor without continual defects and failings. The awareness that we will commit many failings, even very many, greatly helps us toward holiness because it roots us in self-knowledge and in humility, and this is one of the foundations of our sanctification, the other being an invincible hope in divine mercy.  Be attentive, then, not to allow yourself to be discouraged by any defect, and be always ready to begin at every moment. Only be faithful to this, and I promise you that you will become holy.”

(From Overcoming Spiritual Discouragement – The Wisdom and Spiritual Power of Venerable Bruno Lanteri)

 

 

St. Vincent Ferrer, O.P.

“What should impel us more strongly to regulate our exterior actions and movements than the thought that we are before God and that the piercing, all-seeing eyes of His great wisdom are ever fixed upon us?” 

(From A Treatise on the Spiritual Life)

 

Father Jacques Phillippe

“Our greatest evil is the opposition we present toward God’s designs, and the resistance we make to his inspirations; for either we choose not to hear them, or having heard them we reject them, or having received them we weaken and dirty them by a thousand imperfections of attachment, complacency, and self-satisfaction…Thus our greatest concern should be not so much to read spiritual books as to pay great attention to divine inspirations, which are sufficient with very little reading, and to be extremely faithful in corresponding to the graces that are offered to us.”

(From In The School of The Holy Spirit)

 

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - January 14, 2021

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. Vincent Ferrer, O.P.

"The seven dispositions with relation to our Lord in which you should exercise yourself are as follows: Love Him with most ardent love; Fear Him above all things; Render Him the honor and respect which are His due; Have a most constant zeal in His service; in addition to which, Thank and praise Him; Obey promptly and perfectly His commands; and Relish the divine sweetness as keenly as possible."

(From A Treatise On The Spiritual Life) 

 

Venerable Bruno Lanteri

"Anxieties, temptations, aridity, heaviness of heart, tribulations, injuries, unpleasant situations, offenses, ingratitude, crosses, matters which do not go well, and sorrows of various kinds:  I will expect all these, even from those I love and whom I have helped. But I will never consider them as evil nor will I regard their origin in men, but rather in God. I know that nothing can take place against the will of God. I know that this is way He Himself followed here on earth and through which He led the saints closest to Him, even His very Mother, so as to glorify her correspondingly in heaven. 

And so I will consider these as favors and opportunities that He gives me, so that I will need to ask for His help, so that I will know my weakness, and do penance for my sins. I will try to accept them, confident that this is the road He has laid out for me, that all is ordered for my good, and that my part is to seek to benefit from these situations."

(From Overcoming Spiritual Discouragement - The Wisdom and Spiritual Power of Venerable Bruno Lanteri)

 

Robert Cardinal Sarah

"For my part, I know that all the great moments of my day are found in the incomparable hours that I spend on my knees in the darkness before the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am, so to speak, swallowed up in God and surrounded on all sides by His presence. I would like to belong now to God alone and to plunge into the purity of His love. And yet, I can tell how poor I am, how far from loving the Lord as He loved me to the point of giving Himself up for me ."

(From The Power of Silence) 

 

 

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - December 12, 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.

 

Robert Cardinal Sarah 

"Only the truth is powerful in and of itself. It does not need to rely on the strength of armies or money. Our world veils its face in the presence of truth; it does not want to see it. Many people in our time get irritated and go away disdainfully as soon so someone talks about truth or refers to an objective truth that precedes us. That appears to them to be a synonym of dogmatism and intolerance, opposed to progress. But the truth is the light, an indisputable and liberating reality. The truth is indestructible

because it comes from God; it is a face of God."

(From The Day Is Now Far Spent)

St. Vincent Ferrer, O.P. 

"It generally happens, in fact, by God's permission, that a person who judges others falls into the fault with which he reproaches them, or even to greater ones." 

(From A Treatise On The Spiritual Life)

Archbishop Luis M. Martinez

"How is it that God loves us as we are? Because His love is not like ours, poor and indigent, seeking in the beloved what is lacking in themselves. No. God's love is a love of infinite fullness and looks for nothing except a void to fill, for poor beings to make happy, for miseries to cure, because He is infinite Goodness and infinite Mercy. Like the ocean that seeks a bed in which to pour its fullness, the infinite God seeks the immensity of our misery in order to fill it.

If we waited to love God and to be loved by Him until we were clean and good, we could wait forever. Rather we could despair forever."

 (From True Devotion to the Holy Spirit)