Occupy yourself less…
Occupy yourself less about yourself and more about God.
–Saint Mother Theodore Guerin (1798-1856)
God picked me out…
I knew nothing. I was nothing. For this reason God picked me out.
–Saint Catherine Laboure (1806-1876)
Grace is constantly…
Grace is constantly present, and is rooted in us, and worked into us like leaven, from our earliest years, until the thing thus present becomes fixed in a person like a natural endowment, as if it were one substance with the person. But, for one’s own good, it manages one in many different ways, after its own pleasure.
–Pseudo-Macarius (Fifth Century)
When God’s grace…
Learning unsupported by grace may get into our ears; it never reaches the heart. But when God’s grace touches our innermost minds to bring understanding, his word which has been received by the ear sinks deep into the heart.
–Saint Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636)
Seek grace in the…
Seek grace in the smallest things, and you will find also grace to accomplish, to believe in, and to hope for the greatest things.
–Blessed Peter Faber (1506-1546)
Unchanged in our heart…
The Lord said: “Without Me you can do nothing” (Jn. 15:5). So for the duration of our life, every day and at every moment, we must keep unchanged in our heart the feeling, conviction and disposition, that on no occasion can we allow ourselves to think of relying on ourselves and trusting ourselves.
–Lawrence Scupoli (1529-1610)
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