The Divine Hours Quotes

“Come sing, your choirs exultant, those messengers of God, Through whom the living Gospels came sounding all abroad! Whose voice proclaimed salvation that poured upon the night, And drove away the shadows, and filled the world with light. In one harmonious witness the chosen four combine, While each his own commission fulfills in every line; As, in the prophet’s vision from out the amber flame In mystic form and image four living creatures came. Four-square on this foundation the Church of Christ remains, A house to stand unshaken by floods or winds or rains. How blessed this habitation of gospel liberty, Where with a holy people God dwells in Unity. Latin, 12th Century”
― Phyllis A. Tickle, The Divine Hours (Volume Two): Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime: A Manual for Prayer

“Renew in my heart, O God, the gift of your Holy Spirit, so that I may love you fully in all that I do and love all others as Christ loves me. May all that I do proclaim the good news that you are God with us. Amen.†”
― Phyllis Tickle, The Divine Hours (Volume Two): Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime: A Manual for Prayer

“The Petition Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give Your angels and saints charge over those who sleep. Tend Your sick ones, O Lord Christ. Rest Your weary ones. Bless Your dying ones. Soothe Your suffering ones. Shield Your joyous ones, and all for Your love’s sake. Amen.§”
― Phyllis Tickle, The Divine Hours (Volume Two): Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime: A Manual for Prayer

“Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. St. Thomas Aquinas”
― Phyllis A. Tickle, The Divine Hours (Volume Two): Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime: A Manual for Prayer

“Late have I loved thee, O beauty so ancient and so new; late have I loved thee: for behold you were within me, and I outside; and I sought you outside and in my unloveliness fell upon those things, yet had they not been in you, they would not have been at all. You called and cried to me to break open my deafness: and you did send forth your beams and shine upon me and chase away my blindness: you breathed fragrance upon me, and I drew in my breath and I do now pant for you: I tasted you, and now hunger and thirst for you: you touched me, and I have burned for your peace. St. Augustine”
― Phyllis A. Tickle, The Divine Hours (Volume Two): Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime: A Manual for Prayer