Never Mind What Happens

Keep yourself carefully from setting your thoughts upon what happens in the community, and still more from speaking of it except to the proper person at the proper time. Nor should you ever be shocked or marvel at what you see or hear, but should try to keep your soul forgetful of it all. For if you want to ponder on all that happens you would always discover something amiss even if you lived among angels.

ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

What God Demands

What God demands of us is not this or that; He demands everything.

PIERRE REVERDY TO JACQUES MARITAIN

Sow Time

If we are rushed for time, sow time and we will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done.

DOROTHY DAY 15 Days of Prayer With Dorothy Day

Reservoirs & Canals

Be a reservoir rather than as a canal. A canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its super abundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.

St. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Sermons on the Song of Songs

True and False

Nothing should be held true merely because it is eloquently expressed, no false because it sounds harsh upon the lips. And a thing is not true because rudely uttered, nor is it false because its utterance is splendid. I have learned from you that wisdom is like wholesome food and folly like unwholesome food: they can be set forth in language ornate or plain, just as both kinds of food can be served on rich dishes or on peasant ware.

SAINT AUGUSTINE Confessions