Brian Kolodiejchuk famous quotes

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What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence.
-- Brian Kolodiejchuk

#Joy #Granted #Consolation
The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make others, especially the poor, suffer because of them. When she promised to do "a little extra praying & smiling" for one of her friends, she was alluding to an acutely painful and costly sacrifice: to pray when prayer was so difficult and to smile when her interior pain was agonizing.
-- Brian Kolodiejchuk

#Prayer #Pain #Sacrifice
To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She could do so because her joy was rooted in the certitude of the ultimate goodness of God's loving plan for her. And though her faith in this truth did not touch her soul with consolation, she ventured to meet the challenges of life with a smile. Her one lever was her blind trust in God.
-- Brian Kolodiejchuk

#Loving Life #Joy #Challenges
There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual - and yet not wanted by God - repulsed - empty - no faith - no love - no zeal. Souls hold no attraction - Heaven means nothing - to me it looks like an empty place - the thought of it means nothing to me and yet this torturing longing for God. Pray for me please that I keep smiling at Him in spite of everything. For I am only His - so He has every right over me. I am perfectly happy to be nobody even to God. . . . Your devoted child in J.C. M. Teresa
-- Brian Kolodiejchuk

#Children #Mean #Heaven
The tendency in our spiritual life but also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that is going on. And so to us the totality of love is what we feel. But to really love someone requires commitment, fidelity and vulnerability. Mother Teresa wasn't "feeling" Christ's love, and she could have shut down. But she was up at 4:30 every morning for Jesus, and still writing to him, "Your happiness is all I want."
-- Brian Kolodiejchuk

#Love #Mother #Spiritual

The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.
I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
What we take for granted might not be here for our children.
I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.
Thank God for the day. Thank God for the morning. Won't take this here for granted; no, good Lord, I gots to get on it.
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.

Brian Kolodiejchuk famous quotes

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