John Minicky

“When you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you” (Mt 6:6). But our real room is precisely ourselves. Man is invited to enter into himself so as to remain alone with God.”
― Robert Sarah, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise

“In my life, God has done everything; for my part, I just wanted to pray.”
― Robert Sarah, God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

“6. It is necessary to leave our interior turmoil in order to find God. Despite the agitations, the busyness, the easy pleasures, God remains silently present. He is in us like a thought, a word, and a presence whose secret sources are buried in God himself, inaccessible to human inspection. Solitude is the best state in which to hear God’s silence.”
― Robert Sarah, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise

“Much has been written about the character of Louis IX—all of it good. Even his staunchest enemies agreed that Louis was a man of integrity whose moral character was unassailable and whose devotion to justice was legendary. Like all men of his class, Louis was raised in a culture of chivalry that celebrated the crusade as the greatest use of Christian arms. It is no exaggeration to say that the liberation of Jerusalem was the single most cherished goal in his life.”
― Thomas F. Madden, The Concise History of the Crusades