Seek ~ Know ~ Love

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.” ~St. Augustine this is my romance. this is my adventure. these are my thoughts. these are the things that make me smile, the things that warm my heart.

[coriesu]

The Communion Of The Apostles James Tissot⏤ca. 1884-96

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Tempest. Sunset, 1856, Ivan Aivazovski

Medium: oil,canvas

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Dawn at Lake Minnewanka (by David Dai)

[dramoor]

“Prayer is the breath of the soul.  To orient our lives towards God is the most natural human action.  To forget God, is to forget ourselves.  To be found in God, is authentic human nature.”

~The Art of Transfiguration 

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“While praying, a person should not have any thoughts but rather become selfess. Even the Holy Fathers say this: ‘While at prayer, behave as though there were no one else in the wolrd, just you and God.’ When praying, we should not be preoccupied with ourselves, because in that case we are so absorbed in our own needs that we ourselves are detrimental to our prayer.”

+Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

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The fathers described prayer as a spiritual weapon

without which we cannot go into battle,

for we would surely be carried off

into exile in enemy country.

But we cannot acquire pure prayer

unless we cling to God with an open heart,

since it is God alone

who gives the gift of prayer to one who prays,

and God who teaches us mystical knowledge.

St. Theodoros the Ascetic

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My heart ought to cling to God alone.

" It is good for me to hold on and cling to my God "but—what blindness and perversion!

It clings to earthly delights : to food, drink, carnal pleasures; to money, to this dross, to dress, to this corruption, to perishable colours, to patterns, to fashions, that charm the eyes, to luxuriously furnished rooms, etc.

How strange it is!

I, a Christian, a heavenly man, am occupied with everything earthly..."

+St John of Kronstadt

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Have you ever noticed rocks in the sea, beaten by the tempest ? A furious wave dashes against the rock, another and yet another does likewise, yet the rock is unmoved. But look at it after the storm has subsided, and you will see that the flood has but served to wash and purify it of the defilement it had contracted during the calm.

Hereafter I wish you to be as a rock. A wave dashes against you? Silence! It assails you ten, a hundred, a thousand times? Silence! Say, at most, in the midst of the storm, "My Father, my Father, I am all Thine! O dear, O sweet will of God, I adore Thee!"

St. Paul of the Cross

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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.- Vincent Van Gogh

[catholicconnect]

“…as a matter of fact, if you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have been reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?” #CatholicConnect #Faith

[triptihosmrti]

men thinking about prostitution be like oh but what can i do when she offers herself up to me, its a fair trade? you give that poor woman the money without abusing her body and soul, thats what you can do.

[that-catholic-shinobi]

these are the vibes of a King

[warchaplain]

You mean like Saint Vitalis of Gaza

[lovechangeseverythang]

Keep Christ at the center of your focus. Keep Christ at the center of your focus. Keep Christ at the center of your focus.

[tabernacleheart-deactivated2025]

No exceptions– in everything you do, from the common to the critical, and at all times, from the mundane to the magnificent… keep Christ at the center of your focus! Whether in joy or agony, sickness or prosperity, anxiety or comfort… fix your heart and mind on Him, from Whom and for Whom it all exists. Only by doing this will you find fulfillment and purpose and peace.

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The Agony in the Garden

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The Guardian Angel, Icon, Old Believers’ Workshop, Mid 19th Century A. D.

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Yalta. The mountains at night, Ivan Aivazovski

[lovechangeseverythang]

Keep Christ at the center of your focus. Keep Christ at the center of your focus. Keep Christ at the center of your focus.

[tabernacleheart-deactivated2025]

No exceptions– in everything you do, from the common to the critical, and at all times, from the mundane to the magnificent… keep Christ at the center of your focus! Whether in joy or agony, sickness or prosperity, anxiety or comfort… fix your heart and mind on Him, from Whom and for Whom it all exists. Only by doing this will you find fulfillment and purpose and peace.