Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all Heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest.
– St. Francis of Assissi (via tenthousandangels) Via the first day.
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
– Oswald Chambers (via hisstorythroughmine) Via the first day.
“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.” (Luke 15:4-7)
Everyone wants the love of another person, but there is a season for everything. Right now draw near to God so that you understand your worth in his eyes.
– Jason Evert, If You Really Loved Me (via versolalto)(Source: a-ladder-to-the-stars)
Via the first day.
More than three-quarters of Americans profess to being Christians; as Catholics, we make up the single largest religious community in our country.
That suggests that if America is becoming more secularized — more indifferent to God and to religious freedoms and values — in part that must be because Christians have not been living our faith to the fullest. Or, maybe we have been taking our faith for granted.
The question we need to ask ourselves as believers is: Are we shaping our culture or being shaped by it?
– Archbishop Jose Gomez (Los Angeles)(Source: the-tidings.com)
Via the first day.You are so young; you stand for beginnings. I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will, gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Perhaps you are indeed carrying within yourself the potential to visualize, to design, and to create for yourself an utterly satisfying, joyful, and pure lifestyle. Discipline yourself to attain it, but accept that which comes to you with deep trust, and as long as it comes from your own will, from your own inner need.
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via ruefle) Via Book Mania!
