Aeiman

“The religious element, as said before, does not mean the divine, but it denotes reverence for the divine, and therefore, first of all, humility. The modern world withdraws in terror from this virtue as from the epitome of all that is unworthy. This is a misconception. The opposite of humility is not dignity but pride, which is an exaggeration of the true dignity of a man and therefore leads back toward that which is unworthy of him. Humility, on the contrary, is the innate dignity of man in the presence of God.”
― Gertrud von le Fort, The Eternal Woman: The Timeless Meaning of the Feminine

“It is only the city dweller spending his weekends in the country who goes into raptures about nature; the farmer breathes in it. It is only the uncreative critic who is given to much talking about art. For the artist himself, his art is speech sufficient. It is only a motherless time that cries out for a mother, and a deeply unmotherly age that can point to the mother as a demand of the time, for it is precisely the mother who is timeless, the same in all epochs and among all peoples.”
― Gertrud von le Fort, The Eternal Woman: The Timeless Meaning of the Feminine

“Into this threefold prayer the praying woman includes the mysteries of her own motherhood, that through the mystery of the Mother of all mothers they may be uplifted. The earthly mother also has received her child from God; as his gift she has carried it and given it birth. Like Mary, she has presented it to God in the temple, and like her she has found it again in the temple.”
― Gertrud von le Fort, The Eternal Woman: The Timeless Meaning of the Feminine

“Here I am, Lord Jesus! I heard Thy call and I have come to find Thee in the Sacrament of Thy love. You could have come sooner. I was waiting for you. I am always waiting for you:”
― Anonymous, In Sinu Jesu: When Heart Speaks to Heart--The Journal of a Priest at Prayer