This Present Paradise Quotes

“May my life be a continual prayer, a long act of love. May nothing distract me from You, no noise or distractions. I would so love, my Master, to live with You in silence. But what I love above all is to do Your will, and since You want me to be in the world at present, I submit myself with all my heart for love of You. I offer You the cell of my heart to be your little Bethany; come and live there, I love You so much.”
― Claire Dwyer, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“It was in part her growing faith that made even the stuff of the earth seem lovelier. Prayer makes us more alive. It makes life richer, color more vivid, sounds clear, light brighter, joy deeper, sorrow sweeter. It is not compartmentalized into a spiritual square, stacked away in a closet to be pulled out in a quiet time, but it is messy, in a beautiful way, spilling out over life like sunshine. And Elizabeth that was wholly alive, embracing the world with true joy.”
― Claire Dwyer, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“We are very dangerous to the enemy of our souls when we know exactly who we are. “We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them”
― Claire Dwyer, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“The greater suffering sometimes is not being able to choose our own suffering.”
― Claire Dwyer, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“Our primary vocation is to be loved by God. What a radically freeing idea. If we simply allow God to love us, then we have done the most important work of our lives.”
― Claire Dwyer, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“Great desires are the hallmark of the great soul.”
― Claire Dwyer, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“In the Holy Spirit, the soul finds itself absorbed in loving God”
― Claire Dwyer, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“our home is in God”
― Claire Dwyer, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“A smile communicates God to others and reflects back to them something of their own innate goodness.”
― Claire Dwyer, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“Everything, in the plan of Redemption, is based on the Eucharistic life as much as it is upon the rock of Peter,”42”
― Claire Dwyer, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“The reality is that it is in our little spaces, some outside, some inside, where eternity opens up to us. Little portals into immensity itself.”
― Claire Dwyer, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity