“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
“So what is this day which the Lord had made? Live good lives, and you will be this day yourselves. The Apostle, you see, was not talking about the day which begins with sunrise and ends with sunset.” ― St. Augustine of Hippo (in 430 AD)