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1 " How liberating it must be to stop evading, questioning, or complaining about your trials and start embracing them as opportunities to draw closer to God, to realize that even if Jesus is all you have, He is enough "
― Colleen Carroll Campbell , My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir
2 " If productivity, efficiency, and rationality are not the ways God gauges a human person's value, then they are not the ways I should measure it, eiher. If childlike dependence on God is the mark of a great soul, then there are great souls hidden in all sorts of places where the world sees only disability, decay, and despair. "
3 " Thérèse’s emphasis on the “little ones” of the world—her insistence that we regard them not as burdens or embarrassments but as conduits of grace—transformed my worldview and my work. "
4 " I wanted to analyze and dissect my cross, to know how long I would have to carry it and how my carrying it would glorify God. Like a groggy patient fighting to sit upright amid her operation so she can monitor her surgeon’s progress, I wanted to stand outside my suffering and scrutinize God’s work in my soul as He accomplished it. Jesus, I realized, wanted none of this. He did not need my supervision, and he was not asking me to understand my cross. He was asking me to carry it. He wanted me to wake up each morning, bend a knee on the cold wooden floor beside my bed, and offer that day’s suffering and joys for whatever purposes he wished to use them. He wanted me to joyfully embrace my daily duties and leave the big picture to him. "
5 " Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices. "
6 " he loved us not for what we did but for who we were, that just being ourselves, with or without our accomplishments, was enough to make us great in his eyes. "
7 " The crucial question when it comes to faith is not “Do I trust God?” but “Is God trustworthy?” And the only way to answer it is by leaning into his merciful arms and letting go. "
8 " productivity, efficiency, and rationality are not the ways God gauges a human person’s value, then they are not the ways I should measure it, either. If childlike dependence on God is the mark of a great soul, then there are great souls hidden in all sorts of places where the world sees only disability, decay, and despair. "
9 " When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child,” Paul says. “When I became a man, I put aside childish things” (1 Cor 13:11). Desolation invites me to do the same, to serve the Lord no matter how I feel, and trust that what He told me in the good times still holds true in the bad. "
― Colleen Carroll Campbell , The Heart of Perfection: How the Saints Taught Me to Trade My Dream of Perfect for God's
10 " She speaks to our condition. Is the atom a small thing? And yet what havoc it has wrought. Is her little way a small contribution to the life of the spirit? It has all the power of the spirit of Christianity behind it. It is an explosive force that can transform our lives and the life of the world, once put into effect.” Dorothy "
11 " Desde pequeña, recuerdo a mis padres con las cabezas muy juntas, hablando animados de algún santo nuevo que habían descubierto, o de nuevos puntos de vista sobre las Escrituras que habían descubierto en la obra de «Juan», «Teresa» o «la Florecita». "
