Your Constant Practice

The Moment of Beginning Again

The Difference

Painting: James Tissot, The Communion of the Apostles

Time to Choose

Truly Free

Either/Or

And So I Choose......

'Life with Christ is an endless hope; 

without Him, a hopeless end.'

(anonymous)

Painting:  Luis Astete y Concha, Woman in Wheat Field

If They Were To...

'Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them

if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to Him,

and if they were to allow His grace to mold them accordingly.'

St. Ignatius Loyola

Painting: Joseph Rodefer DeCamp, The Blue Mandarin Coat

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We Fly From Him

'Oh, how 
senseless we are! 
The good God 
calls us to Him 
and we fly from Him!
He wishes 
to make us happy,
and we will not 
have His happiness.'

St. John Vianney


 










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Painting: James Tissot

Relying on the Captain

'If you throw yourself wholeheartedly 

into the practice of holy abandonment, 

without noticing it you will make much progress,

just as do the passengers on board a ship 

sailing on the high seas under favorable winds, 

relying completely on the guidance of the captain.'

St. Francis de Sales

Painting:  James Tissot

Be to Him a Field

'Go forward then, full of faith and loving confidence, and deliver yourself into the hands of His providence.  Be to Him a field that He may cultivate as He pleases, without any resistance on your part.  Remain humbly and peacefully clinging to His good pleasure.'

St. Margaret Mary

Painting:  Charles Courtney Curran, Betty Newell. In US public domain due to age

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One Golden Apple

Why should we refuse to give Him

 the apple which we hold in our hands,

 and which He asks from us so often;

that is to say, our heart, 

the one golden apple

that our Divine Savior requires of us?

                                                                                            St. Francis de Sales

Karl Vikas painting US public domain