“Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.” – Saint Ambrose
Self control demands a strong motivation and effort. Little things can help a lot: eating more of what you don’t like and less of what you like, being nicer to the difficult people in your life, carving out time to pray daily even though your tendency is to “do more”, biting your tongue when you want to lash out or waiting to respond to a provocative email until you are calm…etc.
Passions need to be put in check, and shut off and on when appropriate…but we desperately need God’s help. Regular Confession and daily Mass is the best way to guarantee this happening!!
Thy Kingdom Come!Dear Friends in Christ, “God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.” CS Lewis
We all have our calendars and schedules for the day…but within each day, there will always be surprises and some not so pleasant, but perhaps very useful for our spiritual growth. At the end of each day, look back and ask, “What were the ‘God moments’ today and what lessons was he trying to teach me?” This is how we grow!
“Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.” G.K. Chesterton
“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”― C.S. Lewis
God wants all of us to soar to the heights, leaving our comfort zone, trusting that his grace will be more than enough!
“How pleasing to our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament is the short quarter of an hour that we steal from our occupations, from something of no use, to come and pray to Him, to visit Him, to console Him.” (Saint John Vianney)
