Fr. Michael Sliney, LC
“To keep ourselves spiritually alive we must continually renew our faith. We are like pilots of fog-bound steamers, peering into the gloom in front of us, listening for the sounds of other ships, and we can only reach our harbor if we keep alert. The spiritual life is, then, first of all a matter of keeping awake. . . . always able to respond to the slightest warnings that speak, as though by a hidden by instinct, in the depth of the soul that is spiritually alive.” Thomas Merton
“Today Christ is asking each of you the same question: do you love Me? He is not asking you whether you know how to speak to crowds, whether you can direct an organization or manage an estate. He is asking you to love Him. All the rest will ensue.” St. John Paul II
“Friendship with Christ, which forms the basis of faith, is not just one aid among many others for building the future; it is our guiding star.” Pope Leo XIV
“I leave myself in God’s hands to work out my sanctification as He planned. In order to arrive at what I cannot understand, I must go by the way I cannot understand. And each time that I make up my mind to do this, I am more convinced that He will lead me by the way of solitude. Every time I pray, get into my cloud, get recollected, that desire and that conviction deepen. I only need to leave everything absolutely to Him and go blindly where He leads me.” Thomas Merton
“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” St. John Paul II
“This heart, it beats for us in a small tabernacle where it remains mysteriously hidden in that still, white host.” St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
“The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors… each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.” Bishop Robert Barron
