“Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.” PeopleTryingIdeasSoulHelpingLordSunPathEasierShiningGuidesAbandonMidnightPreferenceOur LordWithout GodSun ShinesCoerceBright Ideas Author:Therese of Lisieux
“Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light. It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.” MenHeartSoulLightSpiritChurchReligiousSonHolyPureTraditionMissionsUselessHoly SpiritEtcAbandonAsiaTaoPure HeartReligious TraditionsDionysusOsirisOceania Author:Simone Weil
“The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.” KindSoulNaturalAcquireAbandonContractsObscurityRustPresumptionChimera Author:Quintilian