Favourite quotations from world religious traditions (mystics, saints, thinkers etc.)

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And Garth Brooks (country music star) wrote some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
 
St. Louis De Montfort

A Friend of the Cross is one who is holy and set apart from the things that are visible, for his heart is raised above all that is transient and perishable, and his homeland is in heaven; he travels through this world like a visitor and a pilgrim, and, far from setting his heart on it, he looks on it with indifference and tramples it underfoot with contempt.

ewtn.com/library/Montfort/lfcross.htm#I.

peace
 
St. Seraphim of Sarov

When the mind and the heart are united in prayer, and nothing disturbs the soul’s contemplation, then the heart is warmed by spiritual heat and the light of Christ operates, filling the whole inner man with peace and joy.

peace

ekekraxa.blogspot.com/2010/01…n-sayings.html
 
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

Mother Teresa

She is mentioned in our Church as the greatest of our time
 
I have a whole folder of quotes on my computer… I’m a quote hoarder! The first few I will share are from Fictional Characters from novels 🙂

“The funny thing about lottery tickets,” Mary mused as we waited in line at the cash register, “is that people keep buying them even if they never win. Week after week, month after month, year after year, still they never give up hope. But if they pray for something two or three times, they expect immediate results, and if it doesn’t happen, then they say that God is unfair, disinterested, or dead. Why is it easier to keep believing in the lottery than in God?”

Excerp from Our Lady of the Lost and Found
by Diane Schoemperlen

“Lord, how they’ve changed things in our ‘parlors’ these days. Christ is one of the ‘family’ now. I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we’ve dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He’s a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar-crystal and saccharine when he isn’t making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshiper absolutely needs.”

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Civilization – says my friend Ozzie Boone – exists only because the world has barely enough of two kinds of people: those who are able to build with a trowel in one hand, a sword in the other; and those who believe that in the beginning was the Word, and will risk death to preserve all books for the truths they might contain.

Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

Not to mention the quote in my signature 🙂
 
“Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Saviour?”
  • St. Polycarp
“I am God’s wheat, and I am to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts, so that I may become the pure bread of Christ.”
  • St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Romans
 
St Joan of Arc was asked at her trial if she was in Gods Grace, she responded;

“If I am not may it please God to place me there, if I am may it please God to keep me there.”

St Joan of Arcs last words… “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.”

“We always find that those who walk closest to Jesus, bear the most trials”
St Theresa of Jesus

“The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.”
St Irenaeus

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

“Ten Thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality”
Martin Luther King Jr

“He was offered because it was His own will, and He opened not His mouth” Isaiah
 
Anyone who does not want to have Mary as his mother cannot have Christ as his brother. ** St. Maximilian Kolbe**

I die the king’s humble servant, but God’s first. ** St. Thomas More**:knight1:
 
rdscheirer said:
It was either St Franis of Assissi or St Augustine who said- Go out and evangelize the world, use words if necessary.
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It was St. Francis of Assisi: “Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.”

This is one of my favorite quotes as well. 🙂 It’s in my CAF signature.

Peace,
Anna
 
“This is always already the “other” world!” ~ Franklin Jones
 
“If you can’t see God in all, you can’t see God at all.” ~Yogi Bhajan

“Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.” ~Paramahansa Yogananda

“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.” ~Paramahansa Yogananda

"Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.”
~Paramahansa Yogananda

“Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.” ~Sri Ramakrishna
 
ebonykawai said:
“If you can’t see God in all, you can’t see God at all.” ~Yogi Bhajan

“Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.” ~Paramahansa Yogananda

“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.” ~Paramahansa Yogananda

"Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.”
~Paramahansa Yogananda

“Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.” ~Sri Ramakrishna
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Thanks Ebonykawa: Great quotes!

Your Friend,
Sufjon
 
“The search for Reality is the most dangerous undertaking. It will destroy your world.”~~Nisargadatta
 
“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”
–Julian of Norwich

“This is not Thou, but Thou art this also.”
–Charles Williams

“We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself? And, what good is it to me if Mary is full of grace if I am not also full of grace? What good is it to me for the Creator to give birth to his Son if I do not also give birth to him in my time and my culture? This, then, is the fullness of time: When the Son of Man is begotten in us.”
–Meister Eckhart

“He endur’d the nails, the spitting
Vinegar and spear and reed;
From that holy body broken,
Blood and water forth proceed;
Earth and stars and sky and ocean
By that flood from stain are freed.”
–Venantius Honorius Fotunatus

Under the Mercy,
Mark

All is Grace and Mercy! Deo Gratias!
 
Deo_Volente said:
“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”
–Julian of Norwich

“This is not Thou, but Thou art this also.”
–Charles Williams

“We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself? And, what good is it to me if Mary is full of grace if I am not also full of grace? What good is it to me for the Creator to give birth to his Son if I do not also give birth to him in my time and my culture? This, then, is the fullness of time: When the Son of Man is begotten in us.”
–Meister Eckhart

“He endur’d the nails, the spitting
Vinegar and spear and reed;
From that holy body broken,
Blood and water forth proceed;
Earth and stars and sky and ocean
By that flood from stain are freed.”
–Venantius Honorius Fotunatus

Under the Mercy,
Mark

All is Grace and Mercy! Deo Gratias!
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Beautiful, spirit-filled words of wisdom brother/sister Deo 👍

Thank you so much for providing us with them!

I particularly love the quote on the birth of the Son of God within us by the great mystic Meister Johannes Eckhart. That man was a genius 🙂

I am reminded of the words of a contemporary of Eckhart in the Islamic world in the 13th century:

“…The body is like Mary. Each of us has a Jesus inside, but so long as no pain appears, our Jesus is not born. If pain never comes, our Jesus goes back to his place of origin on the same secret path he had come, and we remain behind, deprived and without a share of him…”

- Jalaluddin Rumi (1207 – 1273), Sufi mystic
 
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. ---- Mahatma Gandhi----

A Good Religious complained one day: “O Lord, what have I done to be treated thus?” Our Lord answered him: “And I, what had I done when I was led to Calvary?”
----Catechism in Suffering-----Thoughts of the Cure D’ Ars
 
“…Some people are proud by nature, and they could never be brought low in humility to such a degree or so covertly. And humility is the true beginning of all virtue…Without a doubt it happens that, when the good and loyal servant is led into the joy of his Lord, he becomes drunk from the limitless overabundance of God’s house. What happens to a drunken man happens to him, though it cannot really be described, that he so forgets his self that he is not at all his self and consequently has got rid of his self completely and lost himself entirely in God, becoming one spirit in all ways with him, just as a small drop of water does which has been dropped into a large amount of wine. Just as the drop of water loses itself, drawing the taste and colour of the wine to and into itself, so it happens that those who are in full possession of blessedness lose all human desires in an inexpressible manner, and they ebb away from themselves and are immersed completely in the Divine Will. Otherwise, if something of the individual were to remain of which he or she were not completely emptied, scripture could not be true in stating that God shall become all things in all things. Certainly one’s being remains, but in a different form, in a different resplendence, and in a different power. This is all the result of total detachment from self…”

- Blessed Henry Suso (c. 1300 - 1366), Catholic mystic
 
“…I once had a dream. I dreamt that I, even though a man, was pregnant, pregnant and full with Nothingness like a woman is with child. And that out of this Nothingness, God was born…The being and the nature of God are mine; Jesus enters the castle of the soul; the spark in the soul is beyond time and space; the soul’s light is uncreated and cannot be created, it takes possession of God with no mediation; the core of the soul and the core of God are one…”

- Meister Eckhart (1260-1328), Catholic mystic and Dominican priest
 
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