Religion

“Love to pray–and feel often during the day the need for prayer and take the trouble to pray.” Mother Teresa

Peace "is granted only to men of good will--to those who strive with the whole of their strength to live their lives in accordance with God's will." Francis Fernandez

"We shall ask him to help us uproot our egoism, to cure us of thinking too much about ourselves and to eliminate from our hearts any kind of lukewarmness." Francis Fernandez

"This is what prayer really is--being in silent inward communion with God." Benedict XVI

"We must keep ourselves detached from all we feel or do if we are to travel along his path and live only for God and the duties of the present moment. We must stop all imaginings about the future, keep our attention on what is happening now and not

"Without patience our expectation [of the spiritual life] degenerates into wishful thinking. Patience comes from the word 'patior,' which means 'to suffer.' . . . What seems a hindrance becomes a way; what seems an obstacle becomes a door." Henri J.M. Nouwen

Dollars, Happiness, Mass, and More Oh oh: "The beneficial impact of last weekend's $1 trillion “shock and awe” intervention by Europe to save Greece and safeguard the Euro is fading-even more quickly than officials had feared [http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/05/15/232281/el-erian-on-the-difficult-choices-still-facing-europe/] ."

"Holiness means the eager acceptance of every trial sent them by God. . . It is the philosophers' stone that changes into gold all their worries, their troubles, all their sufferings." de Caussade, Abandonment. Whenever I fear that I'm getting too holy for my own good (chuckle)

"[W]e cannot be really fed, strengthened, purified, enriched and made holy unless we fulfill the duties of the present moment." de Caussade. Abandonment