Maria

“My dad has always told me that all feelings of peace come from the Lord and all anxiety from the enemy. I think I might alter that statement slightly to say that peace comes from abandonment to providence, while anxiety comes from my determination to wrench providence according to my own desires.”
― Amy Alznauer, Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship Shared in Letters

“That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.”
― Daniel Ladinsky, Love Poems from God: Inspirations from Twelve Sacred Voices of the East and West