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“I have at last found my vocation; it is love!” (St Thérèse of Lisieux) “A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.” (Thomas Merton) “The most important discovery of my whole life is that one can take a little rough cabin and transform it into a palace just by flooding it with God.” (Brother Lawrence) “The Rosary is not a road, but a place, and it has no goal but a depth. To linger in it has great compensations.“ (Romano Guardini) “The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.” (St Teresa of Ávila) “Creation felt symphonic Everything from the wildflowers below to the stratus clouds above spoke of order and design. The ancients had a word for this-one that would in time become intensely meaningful for Christians. They called it logos. “The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” (William Morris) “[It] portrays Jesus Christ, who has suffered inhuman torture, has been taken down from the cross and given over to corruption. His swollen face is covered with bloody wounds, and he looks terrible. The painting made an overwhelming impression on my husband, and he stood before it as if dumbstruck.” (Anna Grigorievna Dostoevsky describes her husband’s reaction to seeing Hans Holbein’s ‘The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb’, ca. 1520-1522, in August 1867.) “A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.” (St John Henry Newman) “Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.” (St Francis de Sales) “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” (John Muir) “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.” (Heb 8:5) “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.” (Mary Oliver) “I have pondered over my ways and returned to your will.” (Ps 119:59) “I plead with you—never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.” (St Pope John Paul II) “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.” (Phil 2:3) “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” (Phil 4:6) “What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. ‘Without love there would be no contemplation.’ Contemplation is a loving attainment of awareness. It is intuition of the beloved object.” (Josef Pieper, Happiness and Contemplation) “Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.” (Ps 119:105) “One who has hope lives differently.” (Pope Benedict XVI) “A single act of love makes the soul return to life.” (St Maximilian Kolbe) Daily Decalogue of St. John XXIII “For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.” (St Teresa of Ávila) “Growth is the only evidence of life.” (St John Henry Newman) “No further would I read, nor did I need to do so, for instantly, upon reaching the end of this sentence, I was illuminated, as it were, by a light that was serenely infused into my heart, and all the darkness of doubt vanished away.” (St Augustine, Confessions) “Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.” (Jer 29:12) “And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” (Col 3:14) “Love is not concerned with a person’s accomplishments, it is a response to a person’s being: This is why a typical word of love is to say: I love you, because you are as you are.” (Dietrich von Hildebrand, The Art of Living) “Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.” (Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture) “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” (Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island)

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Rhys Tranter is a writer and photographer based in Cardiff, Wales. He is the author of Beckett’s Late Stage (2018). His writing has been published in the Times Literary Supplement and the San Francisco Chronicle. [Read More]

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