Stephen

“The primary duty of the modern State is the enforcement of social justice.”
― Jacques Maritain, Man and the State

“I do not advise you to use multiplicity of words in prayer. Many words and long discourses are often the occasions of wandering. Hold yourself in prayer before God, like a dumb or paralytic beggar at a rich man's gate.”
― Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, The Practice of the Presence of God

“He is always near you and with you. Leave Him not alone. You would think it rude to leave a friend alone who came to visit you. Why, then, must God be neglected?”
― Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, The Practice of the Presence of God

“It is not enough to know God as a theory, from what we read in books or feel some fleeting motions of affection for Him brief as the wave of feeling, or glimpse of the divine that prompts them. Our faith must be alive, and we must make it so.”
― Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, The Practice of the Presence of God: