Get rid of everything…
Get rid of everything that does not contribute to the health of your soul or lift your spirit up to God.
–Saint Hildegarde of Bingen (1098-1179)
Let our contemplation…
For this reason let all our actual contemplation, life and activity take place in him alone, about him, for him and towards him who is able and capable to produce with a single nod of his will things infinitely more perfect than any that exist now.
–Saint Albert the Great (c. 1206-1280)
Our Lord is…
Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
Become addicted to…
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
A man has free choice…
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Start by doing…
Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible,
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 – 1226)
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