To please God…
Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please God, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
–Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)
Do not forget your destiny…
Keep a clear eye toward life’s end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God’s creature. What you are in His sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing you have received…but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
The end has come…
The end of all my labors has come. All that I have written appears to me as much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Be so good…
I want to be so good that people will say “If this is what the servant is like, what must the master be?”
–Blessed Charles De Foucauld (1858-1916)
The glory of God…
How is the fullness of God’s glory achieved in each one of us? If what I do and say is for the glory of God, my words and deeds are full of God’s glory. If my plans and undertakings are for the glory of God, if my food and drink and all my actions are for the glory of God, then it is to me also that the words are addressed: “The earth is full of his glory.”
–Origen (c. 184- c. 254)
Powerful meekness…
Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness we practice and make known our virtue, and also cause the indignation of our brother to cease, and deliver his mind from perturbation.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
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