Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

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 Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. “Indeed, only then do we possess a truth completely when we teach it to others, when we make others share our contemplation; only then do we wholly love God when we desire to make Him loved by all. Give money away, or spend it, and it is no longer yours. But give God to others, and you possess Him more fully for yourself. We may go even further and say that, if we desired only one soul to be deprived of Him, if we excluded only one soul – even the soul of one who persecutes and calumniates us – from our own love, then God Himself would be lost to us.” (From The Three Conversions In The Spiritual Life )   Archbishop Louis M. Martinez “Human life is not a life of isolation; it is a life of association, of companionship. By the will of God, we were born in a family, which is p...

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 . Archbishop Luis M. Martinez "For worldly people, the will of God is often a tragic hardship; for imperfect souls, it is a motive for resignation; for saints, it is Heaven. Why so many diverse effects from one thing? Simply because each soul receives the will of God according to its relations with the Holy Spirit." (From True Devotion to the Holy Spirit ) Robert Cardinal  Sarah "It is time for the faith to become for Christians their most intimate, most precious treasure. Think of all the martyrs who died for the purity of their faith at the time of the Arian crisis: because they professed that the Son is not only similar to the Father but of one substance with him; how many bishops, priests, monks, and simple believers suffered torture and death! What is at stake is our relationship with God, not just some ...

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 ...