Quiet Moment

If you are Christ’s body and members, it is your mystery that is placed on the table of the Lord, it is your mystery that you receive. … Be what you see and receive what you are. –St. Augustine

He who desires to make any progress in the service of God must begin every day of his life with new ardor, must keep himself in the presence of God as much as possible, and must have no other view or end in all his actions but the divine…

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. –C.S. Lewis

My search is for him who died for us; my love is for him who rose for our salvation. –St. Ignatius of Antioch

As you drink the cup of the Lord Jesus (how glorious it is!), give thanks to the Lord, the giver of all blessings. –St. Raymond of Penyafort

The chief exercise of prayer is to speak to God and to hear God speak in the bottom of your heart. –St. Francis de Sales

Born of a virgin, he came forth from the womb as the light of the whole world in order to shine on all men. His light is received by those who long for the splendor of perpetual light that night can never destroy. The sun of our daily…

O, that my soul could go up with my blessed Lord! That it might be where he is also — thy will be done — my time is in thy hands. –St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Nothing restrains anger, curbs pride, heals the wound of malice, bridles self-indulgence, quenches the passions, checks avarice and puts unclean thoughts to flight, as does the name of Jesus. –St. Bernard

What then is more blessed than to imitate on earth the anthems of angels’ choirs; to hasten to prayer at the very break of day, and to worship our Creator with hymns and songs. –St. Basil the Great