Category: Touching the Sunrise

Grace is nothing else but a certain beginning of glory within us.

St Thomas Aquinas

‘Of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist it is written: “This morning my soul is greater than the world since it possesses You, You whom heaven and earth do not contain.”‘

St. Margaret of Cortona

‘Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.’

St. Francis de Sales

‘Awake, my soul, awake! show thy spirit, arouse thy senses, shake off the sluggishness of that deadly heaviness that is upon thee, begin to take care for thy salvation. Let the idleness of vain imaginations be put to flight, let go of sloth, hold fast to diligence. Be instant in holy meditations, cleave to the good things which are of God: leaving that which is temporal, give heed to that which is eternal. Now in this godly employment of thy mind, to what canst thou turn thy thoughts more wholesomely and profitably than to the sweet contemplations of thy Creator’s immeasurable benefits toward thee.’

St. Anselm of Canterbury

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

C.S. Lewis

“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”

Vladimir Nabokov