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			 Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739   In that age they will neither read more 
	 Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739   In that age they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be as the angels. We are destined to a better state -- destined to rise to a spiritual consortship. So we, who shall be with God, shall be together: since we shall all be with the one God, though there be many mansions in the house of the same Father; and, in eternal life, God will still less separate them whom He has joined together, than, in this lesser life, He allows them to be separated. 
		
 
	
			 Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the read more 
	 Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... [The poorest] Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility. 
		
 
	
			 Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397  When no tensions are confronted and overcome, because insiders or outsiders read more 
	 Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397  When no tensions are confronted and overcome, because insiders or outsiders of a certain class or group meet happily among themselves, then the one new thing, peace, and the one new man created by Christ, are missing; then no faith, no church, no Christ, is found or confessed. For if the attribute "Christian" can be given sense from Eph. 2, then it means reconciled and reconciling, triumphant over walls and removing the debris, showing solidarity with the "enemy" and promoting not one's own peace of mind but "our peace"... When this peace is deprived of its social, national, or economic dimensions, when it is distorted or emasculated so much that only "peace of mind" enjoyed by saintly individuals is left -- then Jesus Christ is being flatly denied. To propose, in the name of Christianity, neutrality or unconcern on questions of international, racial, or economic peace -- this amounts to using Christ's name in vain. 
		
 
	
			 Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109  For I seek not to understand in read more 
	 Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109  For I seek not to understand in order that I may believe; but I believe in order that I may understand, for I believe for this reason: that unless I believe, I cannot understand. 
		
 
	
			 Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of read more 
	 Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the test of the new life sermon; the girding on of armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing. 
		
 
	
			 Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   I belong to the "Great-God Party", and read more 
	 Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   I belong to the "Great-God Party", and will have nothing to do with the "Little-God Party." Christ does not want nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible. 
		
 
	
			 According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate, Jesus says read more 
	 According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate, Jesus says -- not, one assumes, because you have to beat a path to God's door before he'll open it, but because until you beat the path maybe there's no way of getting to your door. 
		
 
	
			 Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If I now want to add something of my own read more 
	 Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If I now want to add something of my own (i.e., inner assurances) to this faith, if this great and glorious faith is defective and saves me not till I can add my own sense and my own feeling to it at such a time or place, is not this saying in the plainest manner that faith alone cannot justify me? ... All I would say of these inward delights and enjoyments is this: they are not holiness, they are not piety, they are not perfection, but they are God's gracious allurements and calls to seek after holiness and spiritual perfection. 
		
 
	
			 He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other read more 
	 He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times; that we are as strictly obliged to adhere to God by action in the time of action, as by prayer in its season.