But don’t be sad, my child. Don’t worry so much. Even though you have fallen again, get up again. You have been called to a heavenly road. It is not surprising for someone running to stumble. It just takes patience and repentance at every moment.
–Joseph the Hesychast (1897-1959)
Divinely wise souls often infuriate the worldly-wise because they always see things from the Divine point of view. The worldly are willing to let anyone believe in God if he pleases, but only on condition that a belief in God will mean no more than belief in anything else. They will allow God, provided that God does not matter. But taking God seriously is precisely what makes the saint. As St. Teresa put it, “What is not God to me is nothing.” This passion is called snobbish, intolerant, stupid, and unwarranted intrusion; yet those who resent it deeply wish in their own hearts that they had the saint’s inner peace and happiness.
–Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
For it does not require much time to make us saints; it requires only much love.
–Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed so easily.
–Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
The prayers of the Saints in heaven and of the just on earth are a perfume which never will be lost.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
They no longer live their life, but the life of Christ; they no longer suffer their own pain, but rather, the passion of Christ. Therefore they also rejoice in the life of grace that the Lord enkindles in other souls when the spark of divine love touches them and the wine of this love causes in them holy inebriation.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
