Hubert Van Zeller > Quotes

“What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.”
― Hubert Van Zeller

“The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.”
― Hubert Van Zeller

“See your vocation as a God-given path to holiness.”
― Hubert Van Zeller

“How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?”
― Hubert Van Zeller, Holiness for Housewives: And Other Working Women

“How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe?”
― Hubert Van Zeller, Holiness for Housewives: And Other Working Women

“But just as God gives different kinds of faces to people and not one single type of face, so He gives different kinds of occupations and not one.”
― Hubert Van Zeller, Holiness for Housewives: And Other Working Women

“Providence in relation to our sufferings means simply this: that when we have to suffer, we can safely assume that God has allowed this particular trial for our sanctification. The word providence is from the Latin and means “seeing beforehand.” He sees beforehand what is best for us, and we accept what he sends. Divine providence extends equally to things pleasant. God “provides”: he gives the grace to enjoy, he gives the grace to endure. Now one grace, now another: it depends on which grace he sees we need more of at this particular moment.”
― Hubert Van Zeller, The Mystery of Suffering

“Thus it looks in the last analysis as if the soul which serves God in spirit and in truth enjoys a very unusual kind of peace: not the satisfying inward rest which we would have expected, nor the outward rest of having everything in order and nothing left out, but a rest which consists in contentment at having sacrificed both to the will of God.”
― Dom Hubert Van Zeller, We Die Standing Up

“Consciousness of being delayed on the way to eternal life differs in people according to temperament and grace. Even in the individual, it is stronger at some times than at others. But for some the homesickness for eternity is an abiding reality that, in its alternations of joyous hope and lonely longing, is all the time preparing them for the blissful moment of death.”
― Hubert Van Zeller, Suffering: The Cross of Christ and Its Meaning for You