“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
Question for Meditation: What can you count on as steady, permanent?
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“Choice leads to choicelessness, in the best way. It leads to genuine obligation, which is never experienced as coercive when it is truly genuine.”
Question for Meditation: What do you feel genuinely obliged to?
“Holiness consists in one thing: to do God’s will, as He wills it, because He wills it.”
Question for Meditation: What is God’s will for you?
“Mary said, ‘Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.’”
Question for Meditation: What was the last “yes” you gave to someone asking something of you?
“Beloved, you are faithful in all you do for the brothers, especially for strangers; they have testified to your love before the church.”
Question for Meditation: How would a stranger testify to your love?
“To change the world, we must be good to those who cannot repay us.”
Question for Meditation: Do something today for someone without expecting repayment.
“He who regards all men as equals is religious.”
Question for Meditation: How do you regard others? How is that related to your faith?
“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
Question for Meditation: What peace can you make today?
“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”
Question for Meditation: Where do you experience God when you do good?
“He is to imitate the loving example of the Good Shepherd who left the ninety-nine sheep in the mountains and went in search of the one sheep that had strayed. So great was his compassion of its weakness that he mercifully placed it on his sacred shoulders and so carried it back to the flock (Luke 15:5).”
Question for Meditation: How can you imitate the Good Shepherd?
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