In suffering, love…
In suffering, love, and in loving, suffer!
–Blessed Maria Lopez of Jesus (1560-1640)
The holy Church…
All is love’s, and in love, for love, and of love, in the holy Church.
— Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Perfection of life…
Perfection of life is the perfection of love. For love is the life of the soul.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Learn to love by loving…
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Speak heart to heart…
Recall yourself sometimes to the interior solitude of your heart, and there, removed from all creatures, treat of the affairs of your salvation and your perfection with God, as a friend would speak heart to heart with another.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Pray, talk, and listen…
If we are able to speak to our Lord, let us do so; let us praise Him, pray to Him, listen to Him. If we are unable to speak because our voice fails us, let us, nevertheless, stay in the hall of the King and bow down before Him; He will see us there, will graciously accept our patience, and look with favor on our silence… So when you come before the Lord, talk to Him if you can; if you can’t, just stay there, let yourself be seen, and don’t try too hard to do anything else.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
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