Quotes

The will of God is revealed through everyday life.

--- Thomas Merton

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic-on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg-or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
--- C. S. Lewis, in Mere Christianity

I am not capable of doing big things,
but I want to do everything,
even the smallest things,
for the greater glory of God.

--- St. Dominic Savio

Everybody is trying to accomplish something big,
not realizing that life is made up of little things.

--- F.A.Clark

The man who removes a mountain
begins by carrying away small stones.

--- Chinese Proverb

Our worst fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually who are you not to be? You are a child of God: your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others.

--- Nelson Mandela

To me, Jesus is the Life I want to live,
The Light I want to reflect,
The Way to the Father,
The Love I want to express,
The Joy I want to share,
The Peace I want to sow around me.

Jesus is everything to me.

--- Mother Teresa

Not one of us is indispensable. God has the means to do all things and to do away with the work of the most capable human being.

We can work until we drop. We can work excessively. If what we do is not connected to love, however, our work is useless in the eyes of God.

--- Mother Teresa

God has created us so we do small things with great love.

I believe in that great love, that comes or should come from our heart, should start at home: with my family, my neighbours across the street, those right next door.

And this love should then reach everyone.

--- Mother Teresa

A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

--- St. John of the Cross

The virtue of patience is the one which most assures us of perfection.

--- St. Francis de Sales

Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.

--- Pedro Arrupe, S.J.