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Wed 29 Feb 2012

Faith is not a thing of the mind…


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Faith is not a thing of the mind; it is not an intellectual certainty or a felt conviction of the heart. It is a sustained decision to take God with utter seriousness as the God of my life. It is to live out each hour in a practical, concrete affirmation that God is Father and he is “in heaven.” It is a decision to shift the center of our lives from ourselves to him, to forego self-interest and make his interests, his will, our sole concern. This is what it means to hallow his name as Father in heaven.

~Sister Ruth Burrows, O.C.D. in Magnificat via Shirt of Flame

Tue 9 Nov 2010

What stands between us and the kingdom…


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What stands between us and the kingdom is our arrogance; the arrogance of our intellect. Our intellect has been give by God. It is my wrong use of it that is so terrible.

~Servant of God Catherine de Hueck Doherty

Sat 20 Feb 2010

We must pray without tiring…


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We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material success; nor on sciences that cloud the intellect. Neither does it depend on arms and human industries, but on Jesus alone.

– Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (via Saint Quote of the Day)