Awesome Quotes, Prayers and Bible Verses

[AGirone]

I love you, Gentlest of Ways, who ripened us as we wrestled with you.
You, The Great Homesickness we could never shake off,
You, the forest that always surrounded us.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

And yet you are Christian only so long as you look forward to a new world, so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you emphasize the need for conversion both for yourself and for the world, so long as you in no way let yourself become established in a situation of seeming calm, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the status quo and keep saying that a new world is yet to come. You are Christian only when you believe that you have a role to play in the realization of this new kingdom, and when you urge everyone you meet with a holy unrest to make haste so that the promise might soon be fulfilled. So long as you live as Christian you keep looking for a new order, a new structure, a new life.
-Henri Nouwen, WIth Open Hands

 

[romano]

“When Pope John XXIII threw open the windows of the church, all the poisonous vapors of modernity entered, along with the Devil himself.”

 

[Karen1996]

—Psalm 42 v. 2
“As the deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God.”

—Isaiah 43 v. 1
“…Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name: you are mine.”

**—St. Therese of Lisieux in her autobiography, The Story of a Soul **
“As little birds learn to sing by listening to their parents, so children learn the science of the virtues, the sublime song of Divine Love from souls responsible for forming them.”

—“The Rose” by Bette Midler
“Just remember, that in the winter, for beneath the winter snow, lies the seed that with the sun’s love, in the Spring, becomes the rose”