Oh, Lord, I’ve made you a place in my heart, and I hope now you’ll leave it alone.
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William Willimon
Only when we are lured out of ourselves, attached to something greater, are we moved to righteousness.
Daniel Berrigan
To be healed is a prelude to becoming a healer.
Mother Teresa
The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service.
Meister Eckhart
Even if a man were in rapture like St. Paul and knew of one who was in need of food he would do better by feeding that person than by remaining in ecstasy.
St. Augustine
We imitate whom we adore.
Mortimer Adler
When you say [something is] “impossible” you ought to say, “relative to my present state of ignorance it’s impossible.” — Mortimer Adler
John Shea
The joy of the resurrection seduces the miser in each of us into spend-thrift love.
Paul Ricoeur
If you want to change people’s obedience, you must change their imagination.
Henri Nouwen
The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order. . . . Most people despair that [it] is possible. They cling to old ways and prefer the security of their misery to the insecurity of their joy. But the few who dare to sing a new song of peace are the new St. Francises of our time, offering a glimpse of a new order that is being born out of the ruin of the old.