Alina is studying with me at Maryville University in an Honors World Religion course. She has already made a significant impact in our class. She shared with me the following: “One day, I would love…
Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, who brings the day; and you give light through him. –Saint Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun, translated by Bill…
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway. –Mother Teresa
[T]oday it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.—Simone Weil, Waiting for God For [Dorothy] Day,…
Born in 1873, Thérèse of Lisieux entered into this world as the youngest daughter of a devout Catholic family. By the time she passed away at the age of twenty-four, Thérèse was a Carmelite nun…
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and leftuntried. –G. K.Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World
The practice of charity, as I have said, dear Mother, was not always so sweet for me, and to prove it to you I am going to recount certain little struggles which will certainly make…
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway. –Mother Teresa
Not a door in the house had a lock. The door of the dining-room which, we have mentioned, opened into the cathedral grounds, was formerly loaded with bars and bolts like the door of a…
It is this attitude—this unblinking alertness to the meaning of each moment— that probably accounts for the intense compression of Thérèse’s spiritual development. –Carol Lee Flinders, Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics