“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…
“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become – because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”
― C.S. Lewis