“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either.”
C.S. Lewis
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Daily Wisdom
August 29, 2008 — fr. david“The most beautiful Creed is the one we pronounce in our hour of darkness.”
Blessed Padre Pio
St. Augustine
August 27, 2008 — fr. david“There is no better test to distinguish the chaff from the grain, in the Church of God, than the manner in which sufferings, contradiction, and contempt are borne. Whoever remains unmoved under these is grain. Whoever rises against them is chaff; and the lighter and more worthless he is, the higher he rises–that is, the more he is agitated, and the more proudly he replies.”
St. Augustine
Daily Wisdom
May 23, 2008 — fr. david“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.”
St. Jerome
Daily wisdom
May 18, 2008 — fr. david“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”
Dorothy Day
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May 17, 2008 — fr. david“It happens that one man eats more and yet remains hungry, and another man eats less, and is satisfied. The greater reward belongs to the one who ate more and is still hungry than to him who ate less and is satisfied”
St. Anthony of the Desert
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April 22, 2008 — fr. david“Man only escapes from the laws of this world in lightning flashes. Instants when everything stands still, instants of contemplation, of pure intuition, of mental void, of acceptance of the moral void. It is through such instants that he is capable of the supernatural.
Whoever endures a moment of the void either receives the supernatural bread or falls. It is a terrible risk, but one that must be run–even during the instants when hope fails.”
Simone Weil
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April 11, 2008 — fr. david“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
Antoine de St. Exupéry
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April 3, 2008 — fr. david“He departed from our sight, so that we should turn to our hearts and find him there.”
St. Augustine
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March 24, 2008 — fr. david“It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself”
Graham Greene
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March 19, 2008 — fr. david“It is not true that progress, but ignorance, in knowledge extinguishes the faith. The more ignorance prevails, the greater is the havoc wrought by incredulity.”
St. Pius X
Daily Wisdom
March 17, 2008 — fr. davidLet us now take ourselves to Calvary.
“Jesus cried out in a loud voice: ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ And Jesus cried out again in a loud voice, and gave up his spirit.”
I am now about to pronounce a blasphemy, but then I will explain. Jesus on the cross has become an atheist, one without God. There are two forms of atheism: the active or voluntary atheism of those who reject God, and the passive or suffered atheism of those who are rejected (or feel rejected) by God. In both forms there are those who are “without God.” The former is an atheism of fault, and the latter is an atheism of suffering and expiation. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, about whom there was much discussion when her personal writings were published, belongs to this latter category.
Fr. Reiniero Cantalamessa, (Pontifical Preacher)
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March 5, 2008 — fr. david“It is necessary to suffer so that the truth not be crystallized in doctrine, but be born from the flesh”
Emmanuel Mounier
Daily Wisdom
February 27, 2008 — fr. david“I lived in misery, like every man whose soul is tethered by the love of things that cannot last and then is agonized to lose them.”
St. Augustine
Daily Wisdom
February 26, 2008 — fr. david“The most beautiful Creed is the one we pronounce in our hour of darkness”
Blessed Padre Pio
Daily Wisdom
February 24, 2008 — fr. david“The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.”
St. John of the Cross
Daily Wisdom
February 18, 2008 — fr. david“Who can give law to lovers? Love is a law unto itself”
Boethius
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February 8, 2008 — fr. david“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de St.-Exupéry
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February 6, 2008 — fr. david“Any trial that comes to you can be overcome by silence.”
Sayings of the Desert Fathers
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January 31, 2008 — fr. david“By humble and faithful prayer, the soul acquires, with time and perseverance, every virtue.”
St. Catherine of Siena
