Breath of Life
“I assure you that God is much better than you believe. He is content with a glance, a sigh of love."
– St Therese of Lisieux –
“Unless we are anchored in something beyond the here and now, chances are we will drown in the present moment. . . . In my experience, the extraordinary people I have known and admired all have had the same secret: they prayed.”– Ron Rolheiser –
“The deepest reason why so few of us are saints is because we will not let God love us.”– Ruth Burrows –
“Whatever the past, or my fears of the future, here and now, O Holy Spirit, utter within me the total ‘Yes’ of Jesus to the Father.”– Sister Wendy Beckett –
“The most profound expression we can give to faith is to set aside an inviolable time each day, no matter how short, when we deliberately affirm God’s absolute love for me here and now and that we stay there in blind trusting faith, receiving it.”– Ruth Burrows –
“Prayer belongs to all: To people of all religions, And probably also to those that don’t profess any. Prayer is born in the secret of ourselves, in that interior place that spiritual authors often call ‘the heart.’ Therefore to pray is not something peripheral to us, It is not something secondary or marginal in us, But it is the most intimate mystery in us. It is this mystery that prays.”– Pope Francis –