Robert Cardinal Sarah said that “the real questions of life
are posed in silence.” Michael Seagriff offers 100 challenging quotations to
reflect on in the silence in Pondering Tidbits of Truth, Volume 5.
Seagriff
was a lawyer for 30 years (now retired). He is also a Lay Dominican, has led a
prison ministry program, and spent many years promoting Perpetual Eucharistic
Devotion.
In this short book, he includes quotations from such
notables as St. Catherine of Siena, St. John of the Cross, St. Alphonsus
Liguori, St. Francis de Sales, St. John Paul II, St. John Vianney, Dr. Peter
Kreft, and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
This is a preview of some of the quotes you will have the
opportunity to ponder:
It should be our
principal business to conquer ourselves, and, from day to day, to go on increasing
in strength and perfection. Above all, however, it is necessary for us to
strive to conquer our little temptations, such as fits of anger, suspicions,
jealousies, envy, deceitfulness, vanity, attachment and evil thoughts. For in
this way we shall acquire strength to subdue greater ones. – St. Francis de
Sales
He will provide the
way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him,
let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself
entirely. – St. Catherine of Siena
When once we have
placed ourselves totally in the hands of God, we have no cause to fear
misfortune, for if any should come to us, He will know how to make it turn to
our good by ways which we do not know now, but which, one day, we shall know.
– St. Vincent de Paul
Pondering Tidbits of Truth is great for
picking out one quote at a time to reflect on and pray about.
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