Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Suffering
We are to love God, then, because he loved us first. [1 Jn 4:19] The Passion on Calvary is a supreme declaration of love. It was to redeem us that you suffered so much, O Jesus. The least of your acts has infinite worth, since it is one of God’s acts, and would have been more than ample enough to redeem a thousand worlds, to redeem all possible worlds. But you suffered so much because you wanted to make us holy, to bear our burdens and to draw us into loving you freely. Loving is the most powerful way to attract love, loving is the most powerful way to make oneself loved. It is impossible for us to love him and not imitate him, to love him and not want to be the way he was, do what he did, suffer and die in torment because he suffered and died in torment. It is impossible to love him and want to be crowned with roses when he was crowned with thorns. We must love him as he has loved us.
–Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
We should always look to God as in ourselves, no matter in what manner we meditate upon Him, so as to accustom ourselves to dwell in His divine presence. For when we behold Him within our souls, all our powers and faculties, and even our senses, are recollected within us. If we look at God apart from ourselves we are easily distracted by exterior objects.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647- 1690)
Abandonment (of self), Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
When we give ourselves up entirely to His guidance and allow Him to do as He pleases with us, He enables us to make great progress in a short time, almost without our knowing it, except for the struggles in which His grace continually engages our immortified nature.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647- 1690)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
By wishing to do too much, we often spoil everything, constraining our Lord to leave us to act alone and withdraw from us in sorrow.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647- 1690)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Silence
Always maintain interior silence, speaking seldom to creatures, but often to God by your works, suffering and doing all for love of Him.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690)
Charity, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Generosity is at the heart of the Christian life, just as it is at the heart of the Gospel. For it is often through our generosity that we are able to bring the love of God to life in others in very real and tangible ways. God is by his very nature generous. God wants to convince us of his generosity, and in turn wants us to live generous lives.”
–Matthew Kelly (1973-
