Scott Meadows

“If you are home alone with small children whose needs give you little uninterrupted time, then you don’t need an hour of private prayer daily. Raising small children, if it is done with love and generosity, will do for you exactly what private prayer does.”
― Ronald Rolheiser, Domestic Monastery: Creating Spiritual Life at Home

“I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us. I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.”
― St John Chrysostom, St. John Chrysostom's Homilies On Marriage and Family Life

“A shelf of loved books is an arsenal of memories.” -Andrew Peterson, Foreword.”
― Douglas Kaine McKelvey, Every Moment Holy

“At one point, he asked the old monk: “Do you still wrestle with the devil, Father Makarios?” The old priest sighed and replied: “Not any longer, my child. I have grown old now, and he has grown old with me. He doesn’t have the strength.… I wrestle with God.” “With God!” Kazantzakis exclaimed in astonishment. “And you hope to win?” “I hope to lose, my child,” the old man replied. “My bones remain with me still, and they continue to resist.”
― Ronald Rolheiser, Domestic Monastery