A Retreat with Saint Anthony Quotes

“I wanted to live in Ezekiel’s valley where the bones of the martyrs could rise up and”
― Carol Ann Morrow, A Retreat with Saint Anthony: Finding Our Way

“Your life [body and soul] hangs before you’ on the Cross so that you might see yourself as in a mirror, examining and scrutinizing yourself in it.… If you pause to reflect profoundly, you will realize how sublime is your dignity, and how excellent your worth, which demanded so high a price. You cannot better appreciate your worth than by looking into the mirror of the Cross of Christ.”25”
― Carol Ann Morrow, A Retreat with Saint Anthony: Finding Our Way

“Francis of Assisi was crucial to achieving balance in my own life. Francis sensed that I struggled with the balance between learning and loving, between scholarship and spiritual expression.”
― Carol Ann Morrow, A Retreat with Saint Anthony: Finding Our Way

“settle in the land that I shall show you. Reside in this land…and I will be with you and will bless you” (Genesis 26:2,3).”
― Carol Ann Morrow, A Retreat with Saint Anthony: Finding Our Way

“Your welcome encompasses me, Lord my God. I know my place and it is here with you.”
― Carol Ann Morrow, A Retreat with Saint Anthony: Finding Our Way

“The ladder in Jacob’s dream has two sidepieces and six rungs on which one can climb to the top. This ladder symbolizes Jesus Christ. The two sidepieces are his two natures: divine and human. The six rungs are Christ’s six virtues: humility, poverty, wisdom, mercy, patience and obedience.… Behold the ladder stands ready even today. Why do you hesitate to climb it?”
― Carol Ann Morrow, A Retreat with Saint Anthony: Finding Our Way

“What can I say to you? I see myself like the faithful Ruth in the fields, gleaning behind the harvesters, gathering every grain and using it to feed my spiritual hunger—and that of you, my family. Please take and eat.”
― Carol Ann Morrow, A Retreat with Saint Anthony: Finding Our Way

“may seem impetuous to you. Sometimes I seem so to myself.”
― Carol Ann Morrow, A Retreat with Saint Anthony: Finding Our Way

“But Santa Cruz Monastery was home to men who had grown comfortable, even careless with the Gospel.”
― Carol Ann Morrow, A Retreat with Saint Anthony: Finding Our Way