“A love that desires to see God may not have reasonableness on its side, but it is the evidence of filial love. It gave Moses the temerity to say: If I have found favor in your eyes, show me your face. It inspired the psalmist to make the same prayer: Show me your face. Even the pagans made their images for this purpose: they wanted actually to see what
they mistakenly revered.”
[Saint Peter Chrysologus]
“He also said, ‘The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.’”
[Mark 4.26-27]
“We have to withdraw from time to time
to be silent and still, to gain perspective,
to look beyond this world to search for
the origin and purpose of it all. Is there
one with power to heal? Is there a
teacher who will speak to me of truths
my mind cannot discover? Where is the
guide to show me the way through life’s
problems and difficulties? The Christian
knows there is such a one. It is he who
spoke of himself as the Way, the Truth,
and the Life ... It is in silence that we
shall hear a voice deep within us speaking
to our nobler selves, calling us to high
ideals and generous instincts.”
[Cardinal Basil Hume OSB
The Mystery of Love]
“Whoever receives this child in my name receives me,
and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
For the one who is least among all of you
is the one who is the greatest.”
[Luke 9. 48]
“We have to do the works of the one
who sent me while it is day.
Night is coming when no one can work.
While I am in the world,
I am the light of the world.”
[Luke 9. 48]
“Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not fall asleep, but we will all be changed,
in an instant, in the blink of an eye,
at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed.”
[1 Corinthians 15.51-52]
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but only the one who does the will
of my Father in heaven.”
[Matthew 7.21]
“But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins – he then said to the paralytic, ‘Rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.’
He rose and went home.”
[Matthew 9.6-7]
Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or Sabbaths. These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the reality belongs to Christ.”
[Colossians 2.17]
“Dearest Brothers and sisters:
All good giving and every perfect gift
is from above,
coming down from the Father of lights,
With whom there is no alteration
or shadow caused by change.
He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.”
[James 1.17-18]