PITHY PROVERBS AND SAYINGS

Every now and then (at least once a week), I delve into the whimsical world of clever sayings. In past blogs, I have offered you some sayings from Marcus Aurelius, Stephen Hawking, St. Thomas Aquinas, and St. Bernard of Clairvaux. I will continue to do that since these quotes often come from my Lectio Divina which I try to share with you.

Here are a few quotes and ideas, some of which I coined, while others, I purloined.

• All the rowers in the world won’t help if your boat has a hole in it. –mfc
• You don’t break the Commandments, they break you. — Father Conrad Lewis, O.S.B.
• Better to keep your mouth and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt. –Proverbs (I think)
• Trying to prove you are holy by going to Church is always a failure when others see how much you really believe what you profess. –mfc
• You can read the Bible from morning to night, memorize each text by heart, and recite each line of each book from memory, but If you don’t love those who disagree with you and hate you, it is only like a telephone book.
• Being frustrated with the seeming remoteness and sameness of prayer is when you are closest to needing Christ as your way, your truth, and live a life full of hope.
• It is only when you humble yourself, take up your personal cross, and follow the footsteps of Christ that what opens up to your spirit is pure ecstasy.
• Authentic Catholicism, like many atheists hold, is indeed a fairy tale for those who don’t know how to read.
• Just because your road is rocky, doesn’t mean you are on the wrong road.
• One of the challenges of prayer is that the world holds that it is not efficacious.
• Balsam wood is not the wood you should carry on your way to the truth while leading a life of penance and reparation.

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