Devotion to our Blessed Lady…
To begin and end well, devotion to our Blessed Lady, the Mother of God, is nothing less than indispensable.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Reaching the highest perfection…
Twelve stars for reaching the highest perfection: love of God, love of neighbor, obedience, chastity, poverty, attendance at choir, penance, humility, mortification, prayer, silence, peace.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Consider what God wants…
What does it profit you to give God one thing if he asks of you another? Consider what it is God wants, and then do it. You will satisfy your heart better than with something toward which you are inclined.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
The sanctified heart…
The question arises: But what then does the sanctified heart pray for? I answer that when truly sanctified, it prays for nothing, for whosoever prays asks God to give him some good, or to take some evil from him. But the sanctified heart desires nothing, and contains nothing that it wishes to be freed from. Therefore it is free of all want except that it wants to be like God.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Seek God purely…
Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Between time and eternity…
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
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