It is unnatural for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible.
To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.
Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.
Nothing honors God more than a Big Dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish!
Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.
What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
To be spiritual means you have cosmic ambitions. You want to know not just the whole creation but the Creator and the source of creation as well. To be material means you have petty ambitions of owning a house - or 10 houses - or a whole apartment building.
The Lord would want you to be successful. He would. You are His sons and His daughters. He has the same kind of love and ambition for you that your earthly parents have. They want you to do well and you can do it.
As God’s chosen, blessed sons and daughters, we are expected to attempt something large enough that failure is guaranteed…unless God steps in.
I have never had, nor will I ever have, any [political] ambitions. The only thing on which I have always set my heart is being able to gain God's good pleasure and, therefore, trying to make him known correctly and loved by humanity.
