Change our character…
We cannot change our character, it is true, as easily as we change our clothes. It is the work of a lifetime. It is achieved with the grace of God and constant effort.
–Saint Madeline Sophie Barat (1779-1865)
Gratefully accept both…
Shouldn’t we gratefully accept both good and bad as coming from the hand of God, for both are inclined to our advantage if we know how to profit from them.
–Saint Madeline Sophie Barat (1779-1865)
More important to love…
Let your heart be more attentive than your head, for the Holy Spirit is love, and to take hold, it is more important to love than to understand.
–Saint Madeline Sophie Barat (1779-1865)
Balanced upon the word of God…
All creatures are balanced upon the creative word of God, as if upon a bridge of diamond; above them is the abyss of the divine infinitude, below them that of their own nothingness.
–Saint Philaret of Moscow (1782-1867)
To become holy…
Every Christian should find for himself the imperative and incentive to become holy. If you live without struggle and without hope of becoming holy, then you are Christians only in name and not in essence. But without holiness, no one shall see the Lord, that is to say they will not attain eternal blessedness. It is a trustworthy saying that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners (1 Tim. 1:15). But we deceive ourselves if we think that we are saved while remaining sinners. Christ saves those sinners by giving them the means to become saints.
–Saint Philaret of Moscow (1782-1867)
Pray for the faithful departed…
We must say many prayers for the souls of the faithful departed, for one must be so pure to enter heaven.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
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