“A vocation is a call that comes from God’s sovereign power and free gift. However, such a call must find an open path in the heart. It must enter into the depths of the subject’s thought, feelings and will, in order to influence one’s moral behavior.” ~Pope John Paul II
Before I formed you in my mother’s womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart and appointed you. ~Jeremiah 1:5
In the words of our Holy Father, each one of us must be able to “cleanse what is dirty, to warm what is lukewarm, to strengthen what is weak, to enlighten what is dark.” We must not be afraid to proclaim Christ’s love and to love as He loved.
~Mother Teresa
“God is present, no matter how often humanity may forget God. Christianity has the living and modern spiritual energy, ready to confront the negations of a materialistic world.” ~Pope John XXIII
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
~Erma Bombeck
“Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on…you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself.”
~Thomas Merton
“In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye. Yet such twinklings is what eternity is made of. Moments when we human beings can say, ‘I love you. I’m proud of you. I forgive you. I’m grateful for you.’ That’s what eternity is made of: invisible, imperishable good stuff!” ~Fred Rogers
“Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
~ G.K. Chesterton
“Prayer is not a power to remove obstacles to growth; prayer is a reliance on God that he will raise us to grow through obstacles.” ~Anonymous
“What do you do when everything is going wrong and there’s nothing else you can do? You hang on – just like Jesus did.” ~Anonymous
“God has created me to do him some definite service; he has committed some work for me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission – I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for nothing. Therefore, I will trust him, whatever, wherever I am. I cannot be thrown away.” ~John Henry Newman
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