Human nature is weak…
Human nature is weak and the devil is always most active after a conversion. We can never have too much pity for those who have fallen.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
Spiritual things…
Why is it that we have so little liking for spiritual things? This is because we love Jesus Crucified so little.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
Silence where the Lord dwell…
God does not give Himself to a chattering soul which, like a drone in a beehive, buzzes around but gathers no honey. A talkative soul is empty inside. It lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others.
–Saint Faustina (1905-1938)
Who desires peace…
She who desires peace must see, suffer and be silent.
–Saint Teresa Margaret (1747-1770)
She who is silent…
She who is silent everywhere finds peace.
–Saint Teresa Margaret (1747-1770)
Interior silence consists…
God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, of keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us. We know well enough how to keep outward silence, and to hush our spoken words, but we know little of interior silence. It consists in hushing our idle, restless, wandering imagination, in quieting the promptings of our worldly minds, and in suppressing the crowd of unprofitable thoughts which excite and disturb the soul.
–François Fénelon (1651-1715)
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