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“A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.” (Thomas Merton)

“The most important discovery of my whole life is that one can take a little rough cabin and transform it into a palace just by flooding it with God.” (Brother Lawrence)

“The Rosary is not a road, but a place, and it has no goal but a depth. To linger in it has great compensations.“ (Romano Guardini)

“The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.” (St Teresa of Ávila)

“Creation felt symphonic Everything from the wildflowers below to the stratus clouds above spoke of order and design. The ancients had a word for this-one that would in time become intensely meaningful for Christians. They called it logos.

“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” (William Morris)

“[It] portrays Jesus Christ, who has suffered inhuman torture, has been taken down from the cross and given over to corruption. His swollen face is covered with bloody wounds, and he looks terrible. The painting made an overwhelming impression on my husband, and he stood before it as if dumbstruck.” (Anna Grigorievna Dostoevsky describes her husband’s reaction to seeing Hans Holbein’s ‘The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb’, ca. 1520-1522, in August 1867.)

“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.” (St John Henry Newman)

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.” (St Francis de Sales)

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Rhys Tranter is a writer and photographer based in Cardiff, Wales. He is the author of Beckett’s Late Stage (2018). His writing has been published in the Times Literary Supplement and the San Francisco Chronicle. [Read More]

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