Inspirational thoughts

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”  G.K. Chesterton

“I ought to seek the company of those Sisters who according to nature please me least. I ought to fulfill in their regard the office of the Good Samaritan. A word, a kindly smile, will often suffice to gladden a wounded and sorrowful heart.” St. Therese of Lisieux

“In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.” – St. Teresa of Avila

Be courteous to all but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington

“We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.” – St. Teresa of Avila

   His mother, only brother and father died before he was 21, he lost several friends during WWII and worked in a rock mine, studying clandestinely for the priesthood, he faced down communism as a Bishop and Pope, suffered cancer and parkinson’s, and this list could go on and on…and yes, he loved Christ with an intense and real passion!

“The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he ‘likes’ them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on – including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.” G.K. Chesterton

“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.” -St. Augustine

    “Humility is truth.” (St. Teresa of Avila).  We all have our qualities and virtues as well as our imperfections….to define ourselves exclusively by either one is not healthy! God bless,Fr. Michael Sliney, LC

“It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.” G.K. Chesterton

   Make God your first thought in the morning.  Personally, I say out loud from my pillow, “Jesus, I love you.  This day is for you!  We got this!”God bless,Fr. Michael Sliney, LC

“Perfect love means putting up with other people’s shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.” St. Therese of Lisieux
    Patience with the imperfections and quirkiness of the others…all for Christ!

“Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.” C. S. Lewis