The Virtual Oratory

Winter quotations to consider:

From Cornelia Connelly: Accepted suffering...one simple remembrance of his presence that unwraps all the windings of the heart and makes us true as he is true. 

From St Francis de Sales to St. Jeanne Francoise de Chantal:  Your powerlessness hurts you greatly, for you say, it keeps you from entering yourself and approaching God. This is wrong. Without doubt, God leaves this powerlessness in us for His glory and our great benefit. He wants our misery to be the throne of His mercy, and our powerlessness the seat of his omnipotence.

Eckhardt commenting on the deserted places of the heart: "where never was seen difference, neither Father, Son, nor Holy Spirit, where there is no one at home, yet where the spark of the soul is more at peace than in itself. (found in John S Dunne's The Music of Time). Also Wm James The Varieties of Religious Experience mentor edition, p. 320.

Psalm 35: 27 b...Great is the LORD who delights to see his servant in peace.

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