Little Spiritual Gems of Sparkling Light
Short thoughts, mottoes, quotes, & more
Contents
Paladin Maxims
Life is a Journey to God
Love Sacrifices
Contemplation in Action
Zealous & Ecumenical
Paladin Quotes
It’s one thing to hear the Word of God; it’s quite another to talk about it and share about it, to reflect on it and apply it to our lives. And to do this with others in a warm and accepting environment, a trusting and nurturing atmosphere of peers, peers becoming something far more, is profoundly powerful. Then truly, Jesus is among us in a special way!
-VW Malzahn
Man’s solutions are like trying to keep back the tide with a broom
– V.W. Malzahn
Christians are called to aim high—unimaginably high—divinely high. So often, though, we aim low, unfathomably low, even Judas low, and promptly shoot ourselves in the foot, over and over again!
– V.W. Malzahn
There can be no Utopia between Eden & Heaven
– V.W. Malzahn
Moderation in all things, save Faith, Hope, & Love
– V.W. Malzahn
Only the man who loves God more than his wife is capable of loving his wife more than himself
– V.W. Malzahn
Oh, how we love truth and how we love justice, but when we put truth and justice before love, our truth isn’t so true and our justice isn’t so just.
Love must come first!
– V.W. Malzahn
Sometimes our lives are echoes of Jesus’ agony in the garden; sometimes the greatest victory of our lives is simply consenting to God’s will in the midst of our own agony.
– V.W. Malzahn
– TOP –
Quotes We Like
The Son of God became a son of man so the sons of men might become sons of God
– St. Athanasius, c. 297-373
Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple area and to breaking bread in their homes.
-Acts 2:46
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian anymore than going to a garage makes you a car
– Bridget Willard
If I’m not willing to change my schedule so that I can spend time with Jesus then I’m not really a disciple of His
– Father Mike Schmitz
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream
– Malcolm Muggeridge
When it comes to following Jesus it’s usually not more information that we need, but more guts
– Father Mike Schmitz
Let us embrace suffering, then, with the same sentiment Jesus had: to do the Father’s will, to atone for sin, and to give Him proof of our love.
-Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, OCD
Anyone whose sole pleasure lies in seeking God and who cares nothing for her own pleasure, will find our life a very good one
-St. Teresa of Avila
St. John Henry Newman astutely observed that large groups of people, even large groups of religiously-minded people, do not light fires. Throughout the Church’s twenty centuries of history, it is individuals who ignite the blazes. -Fr. Thomas Dubay
Sin obscures sight.
-Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
John Paul II Quotes
Don’t be afraid of the radicalness of His demands… If He asks much of you it is because He knows you can give much
-John Paul II
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
-John Paul II
Young people are threatened… by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
-John Paul II
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
-John Paul II
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
-John Paul II
– TOP –
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
-John Paul II
C. S. Lewis Quotes
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
-C.S. Lewis
God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
-C.S. Lewis
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
-C.S. Lewis
Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.
-C.S. Lewis
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world
-C.S. Lewis
I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
-C.S. Lewis
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
-C.S. Lewis
– TOP –
Spiritual Gems Around the Web
My Catholic Life – Inspiring Quotes
Aleteia: 12 Inspiring Catholic quotes to begin each day
Good Reads: Catholicism Quotes