Quotes

I have been collecting quotes in all of the reading I've been doing lately.  And I have wanted to share a couple of really powerful ones.  No better place than here!

"Let us sing now, not in order to enjoy a life of leisure, but in order to lighten your labors.  You should sing as wayfarers do - sing, but continue your journey.  Do not be lazy, but sing to make your journey more enjoyable.  Sing, but keep going." - St. Augustine

 "The darkness is still with us, O Lord.  You are still hidden and the world which you have made does not want to know you or receive you...You are still the hidden child in a world grown old...You are still obscured by the veils of the world's history, you are still destined not to be acknowledged in the scandal of your death on the cross...But I, O hidden Lord of all things, boldly affirm my faith in you.  In confessing you, I take my stand with you...If I make this avowal of faith, it must pierce the depths of my heart like a sword, I must bend my knee before you, saying, I must alter my life.  I have still to become a Christian." - Karl Rahner

"When a bird remains long on the ground it thereby weakens its wings and its feathers grow heavy.  Then it rises, flaps its wings and swings itself up till it takes to the air and glides into flight.  The longer it flies, the more blissfully it soars, refreshing itself, hardly alighting on the earth to rest.  So it is with the soul: the wings of love have taken from it the desire for earthly things.  We must prepare ourselves in the same way if we wish to come to God.  We must rise on wings of longing up to him." - Mechtild of Magdeburg