“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)
“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
― C.S. Lewis
Training hard for a marathon translates into a better time and generally a little less pain during the “wall” period of the race. Pray and discipline your passions, and then virtues tend to shine a little brighter…
