Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love. Catherine Doherty More Quotes by Catherine Doherty More Quotes From Catherine Doherty With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again. Catherine Doherty begin-again moments Faith brings into our lives such freedom, such love, such peace, and such joy that there are no words in any language that can explain it. You have to have it in order to know it. You have to experience it in order to understand it. Faith liberates. It liberates love and hope. If I am free to love and free to hope, what more do I want of life? Catherine Doherty want joy order Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult. Catherine Doherty heart giving children Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you. Catherine Doherty bonfire real letting-go Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another. Catherine Doherty faith dark night Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence. Catherine Doherty terrible speech silence True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God. Catherine Doherty garden silence soul We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. … Christ’s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love! Catherine Doherty ordinary hands needs We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are one with Christ. Catherine Doherty hereafter waiting christ With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing. Catherine Doherty communication healing relationship It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so ill, so weak, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well. Catherine Doherty tired communication life What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God. Catherine Doherty god-is-love together love-is What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously. Catherine Doherty matter Faith sees God's face in every human face. Catherine Doherty human-faces humans faces Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come. Catherine Doherty human-life darkness hope A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple! Catherine Doherty sinner saint simple Preach the Gospel with your life — without compromise! Catherine Doherty compromise Faith is contagious when we show it to one another. Catherine Doherty contagious shows faith She who received the seed of eternal glory Now dispenses grace, the seed of glory-to-come. My womb was the chalice of the impenetration of God That became the Incarnation of God and man Catherine Doherty glory grace men Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you. Catherine Doherty meditation inspirational peace
