God’s plan is that we be holy. Let us not refuse Him anything for love of Him and for our sanctification. No one can sanctify himself without suffering, it is necessary to follow our divine Master. The saints followed Him, and that is what made them arrive in Heaven,
there is no other road.
–Saint Joan Antide-Thouret (1765-1826)
Remember also the teaching of the Fathers of the spiritual life that not to advance in perfection is to go back. It is in the midst of combat and contemplation that virtue is perfected. Fill your soul with the seeds of grace, wisdom and the judgements of the Spirit of God to accomplish the design of the Christian and religious perfection that the Lord has for you.
–Saint Joan Antide-Thouret (1765-1826)
Give thanks to Jesus Christ as soon as you get up in the morning for the blessings and graces he gives us continually, having created you to his own image and likeness, and having given us the grace of being Christian.
–Saint John of God (1495-1550)
Pray as you can, not at you can’t.
–John Chapman (1865-1933)
The only way to pray is to pray; and the way to pray well is to pray much. If one has no time for this, then one must at least pray regularly. But the less one prays, the worse it goes.
–John Chapman (1865-1933)
You don’t know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, ‘Lord, I don’t know how to pray!” you can be sure you have already begun.
— Saint Josemaria Escriva (1902-1975)
