“It is not in our power not to feel or to forget an offense; but the heart that offers itself to the Holy Spirit turns injury into compassion and purifies the memory.” ― Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 2843
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‘God walks among the pots and pans.’ - St Teresa of Avila
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“And … he showed a little thing the quantity of a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand as it seemed to me, and it was as round as any ball. I looked therein with the eye of my understanding, and thought: “What may this be?” And it was answered generally thus: “It is all that is made.” I marvelled how it might last, for it seemed to me it might suddenly have fallen into nothing for its littleness. And I was answered in my understanding: “It lasteth and ever shall, because God loveth it. And so hath all things being by the love of God.”
St Julian of Norwich
I love this mystical statement of the love of God for what he has created, and it also fits in with a current idea that if the matter of the universe were compressed, it would fit into a matchbox.
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“Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.” ― St. Therese of Lisieux
“The rhythm of grace is the Holy Spirit.” ― Bishop Robert Barron