"Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them." - John 14:23

". . . and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me." - Galatians 2:20

"The union of the Christian with Christ is not just a similarity of inclination and feeling, a mutual consent of minds and wills. It has a more radical, more mysterious and supernatural quality: it is a mystical union in which Christ Himself becomes the source and principle of divine life in me." - Thomas Merton

"By this life, Jesus Christ imparts to me His Spirit. In this way, He becomes the principle of a superior activity which raises me up, provided I do not obstruct it, to think, judge, love, will, suffer, labor with Him, by Him, in Him, and like Him. My outward acts become the manifestations of this life of Jesus in me. And thus I tend to realize the ideal of the INTERIOR LIFE that was formulated by St. Paul when he said: 'I live, now not I, but Christ liveth in me.'" - Jean-Baptiste Chautard, O.C.S.O.

"To perceive means to listen in silence...and only in silence is hearing possible. Moreover the strong the determination prevails to hear all there is, the more profound and more complete the silence must be." - Josef Pieper

"You will never find interior solitude unless you make some conscious effort to deliver yourself from the desires and cares and attachments of an existence in time and in the world. Do everything you can to avoid the noise and the business of men...be glad if you can keep beyond the rearch of their radios. Do not bother with their unearthly songs. Do not read their advertisements." - Thomas Merton

"Lord, may my motto be: Thou in me and I in Thee! How beautiful is Your presence within me, in the inmost sanctuary of my soul. May my continual occupation be to retire into myself, that I may lose myself in You, and live with You. I feel You so vividly in my soul, that I have only to become recollected to find You there within me, and in that I find all my happiness . . . O Lord, let me live with You as with a friend! Help me to live in the awareness of faith always, in order that I may be united to You no matter what happens. I bear heaven in my soul, since You, who satiate the blessed in the Beatific Vision, give Yourself to me in faith and mystery . . . Grant, O my God, that my soul may be a little heaven wherein You can rest with delight. In order that I may attain this end, help me to remove everything that might offend Your divine eyes, and then permit me to live always with You in this little heaven. Wherever I am or whatever I do, You never leave me alone; grant that I, too, may always remain with You. At every hour of the day and night, in joy or sorrow, in every work and action, may I always know how to find You within me! . . . O my God, Blessed Trinity, be my dwelling, my rest, my Father's house which I shall never leave. Let me abide in You, not for a few fleeting minutes or hours, but permanently, habitually. May I pray in You, adore in You, love in You, suffer in You, work and act in You alone. Let me remain in You to offer myself to others through You, to attend to all my duties, while always penetrating further into Your divine depths. O Lord, grant that every day I may advance along the path of the abyss that leads me to You, that lets me slide down this slope with a confidence full of love." - St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

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