These gleanings are drawn from a former and no-longer-extant website I had. And I include, on this page, a picture of St. Germain (violet flame). I have great devotion to him.
St. Germain and the Violet Flame
Not much here yet but what's here is pretty weighty. I envisage this as becoming a collection of insights that I have found written which impact on my life.
LOVE
"He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open."
--Rabindranath Tagore
PERSEVERANCE
"Obstacles impede, yet simultaneously launch our progress. The very things that stand in our path become the path itself."
--Marcus Aurelius
POSITIVE THINKING
"Instead of greeting the day with my usual, 'Good God, MORNING!' attitude, I consciously said, 'GOOD morning, God!' with the expectation that it would be a good day. And that's what it's been."
--Liane Cordes
SENSITIVITY
"There are many people who, you know, can't cope, and I think they see the actual true reality of everything. They intensely feel things. Whereas the majority of us, in order to cope, can't feel things so intensely. That's human nature. It's not a choice. It's certainly not a choice to feel things too intensely."
--Andrea Corr
THE GOSPEL
"[Jesus] saves us; we do not save ourselves. But I find, incredibly, that nine out of 10 Catholics do not know this, the absolutely central, core, essential dogma of Christianity. Protestants are right: most Catholics do in fact believe a whole other religion. Well over 90% of students I have polled who have had 12 years of catechism classes, even Catholic high schools, say they expect to go to Heaven because they tried, or did their best, or had compassionate feelings to everyone, or were sincere. They hardly ever mention Jesus. Asked why they hope to be saved, they mention almost anything except the Saviour."
--Peter Kreeft
"Jesus our Lord... was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification" –Rom. iv. 24, 25.
And now a good anonymous quote...: "Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it."
LOVE
"He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open."
--Rabindranath Tagore
PERSEVERANCE
"Obstacles impede, yet simultaneously launch our progress. The very things that stand in our path become the path itself."
--Marcus Aurelius
POSITIVE THINKING
"Instead of greeting the day with my usual, 'Good God, MORNING!' attitude, I consciously said, 'GOOD morning, God!' with the expectation that it would be a good day. And that's what it's been."
--Liane Cordes
SENSITIVITY
"There are many people who, you know, can't cope, and I think they see the actual true reality of everything. They intensely feel things. Whereas the majority of us, in order to cope, can't feel things so intensely. That's human nature. It's not a choice. It's certainly not a choice to feel things too intensely."
--Andrea Corr
THE GOSPEL
"[Jesus] saves us; we do not save ourselves. But I find, incredibly, that nine out of 10 Catholics do not know this, the absolutely central, core, essential dogma of Christianity. Protestants are right: most Catholics do in fact believe a whole other religion. Well over 90% of students I have polled who have had 12 years of catechism classes, even Catholic high schools, say they expect to go to Heaven because they tried, or did their best, or had compassionate feelings to everyone, or were sincere. They hardly ever mention Jesus. Asked why they hope to be saved, they mention almost anything except the Saviour."
--Peter Kreeft
"Jesus our Lord... was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification" –Rom. iv. 24, 25.
And now a good anonymous quote...: "Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it."
