Inspirational thoughts

“Joy is the echo of God’s life within us.” Blessed Columba Marmion

“God has given different gifts for different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realized that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority.” Venerable Fulton Sheen

“The trouble with our times is that we focus on the temporal, rather than the eternal.” Venerable Fulton Sheen

“We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.” — Pope Benedict XVI

“What does Jesus Christ do in the Eucharist? It is God, who, as our savior, offers himself each day for us to his Father’s justice. If you are in difficulties and sorrows, he will comfort and relieve you. If you are sick, he will either cure you or give you strength to suffer so as to merit Heaven. If the devil, the world, and the flesh are making war on you, he will give you the weapons with which to fight, to resist, and to win victory. If you are poor, he will enrich you with all sorts of riches for time and eternity. Let us open the door to his sacred and adorable Heart and be wrapped about for an instant by the flames of his love, and we shall see what a God who loves us can do. O my God, who shall be able to comprehend?” – St. John Vianney

“It would be like blasphemy to believe that God is indifferent to our needs and sufferings”.  Blessed Columba Marmion

“Confidence is the key which opens the treasure of My mercy”.  Blessed Columba Marmion