Everyone has his cross…
On this earth everyone has his cross. But we must act in such a way that we be not the bad, but good thief.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
The Cross will not…
The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
Resplendent with beauty…
If things created are so full of loveliness, how resplendent with beauty must be the One who made them!
–Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231)
Sublime magnificence of created things…
If there is anyone who is not enlightened by this sublime magnificence of created things, he is blind. If there is anyone who, seeing all these works of God, does not praise Him, he is dumb; if there is anyone who, from so many signs, cannot perceive God, that mis foolish.
–Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274)
Stretching unto God…
A blind feeling of one’s own being, stretching unto God
–The Cloud of Unknowing (Fourteenth Century)
Hanging by God’s thread…
Hanging by God’s thread of pure Love
–Saint Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510)
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