Humility, Page: Quotes, Prayer (how), Quote Author, Quote Topic, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
My desire is to clearly describe matters related to prayer. This will be very difficult for the uninitiated to understand. It is best for us so not to attempt to rise by its own efforts. If the well is dry, we are not able to put water into it. Pay attention to this. If the soul tries to go forward it may actually go backward. The foundation for prayer is humility. The nearer we come to God, the more you humility we need. There is a kind of pride that makes us want to be more spiritual. God is already doing more for us than we deserve.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361), Page: Quotes, Quote Author
Mercy is born of that love which we ought to exercise towards each other. If we do not, God will require it of us at the Judgement Day; and, where He findeth not the requisite mercy, He will refuse mercy, as He Himself has said.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
John of Kronstadt (1829-1908), Page: Quotes, Quote Author
Jesus Christ is the consolation, the joy, the life, the peace and the breadth of our hearts! Glory to God, the Most Wise and Most Gracious, that He allows the spirit of evil and death to tempt and torment us! Otherwise we should not have sufficiently appreciated and valued the comfort of grace, the comfort of the Holy Spirit the Comforter, the Life-Giving!
–Saint John of Kronstadt (1829-1908)
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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
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It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.
— Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
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The saints all passed through many temptations and trials to profit by them, while those who could not resist became reprobate and fell away. There is no state so holy, no place so secret that temptations and trials will not come. Man is never safe from them as long as he lives, for they come from within us—in sin we were born.
— Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
