Kathryn

“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”
― Augustine of Hippo

“Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.”
― Thomas Merton

“It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves on the same plane as God – acting as if we had no needs, as if we were not creatures, not dependent on Him and dependent, by His will, on material things, too.”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

“The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.”
― Thomas Merton