Living a life of devotion should not remove us from the events, responsibilities and circumstances of daily living. Rather, striving to live devoutly provides us with a divine perspective that enables us to more fully embrace these same events, responsibilities and circumstances.
"Perfection does not lie in avoiding
the world, but in not clinging to it."
(LW VI 52)
"Do as little children do, who with one hand
cling to their father, and with the other
gather blackberries along the hedges."
(In III 10)
"You must choose: is it better that there should
be thorns in your garden in order to have roses,
or that there should be no roses in your garden
in order to have no thorns?
(LR III 15)
"Accustom yourself to know how to pass from prayer
to all sorts of actions which your vocation
justly and lawfully requires of you."
(In II 8)
"Riches can prick us with a thousand troubles
in getting them, as many cares in preserving them,
more anxieties in spending them, and with
grief in losing them."
(S XVI 4)
"Peace is better than fortune."
(LW II 10)
"Take care of your health that it may
serve you to serve God."
(LW II 10)
"We must sometimes take a step backward
in order to better spring forward."
(LW II 6)
"While we are busy and anxious to find
out what is the better, we unprofitably let slip
the time for doing many good things."
(T VIII 14)
"We must do all by love, and nothing by force."
(LW III 11)
"The beginning of good things is good;
the progress, better; the end, best."
(T II 19)
"Blessed are the hearts that bend; they shall never be broken."
(S VII 1)
"Live joyously among your occupations."
(LR II 29)
"You must lovingly leave some work
to others, and not seek to have
all the crowns."
(LR II 6)
"Sometimes we so much occupy ourselves
with trying to live like angels
that we neglect to be good
men and women."
(LW I 5)
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