Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751), Page: Quotes, Quote Author
Let us go, then, let us run and fly to that ocean of love by which we are attracted! What are we waiting for? Let us start at once, let us lose ourselves in God, even in His heart, to become inebriated with the wine of His charity. We shall find in His heart the key of heavenly treasures. Let us begin at once our journey to Heaven. There is no passage that we cannot discover, nothing is shut against us, neither the garden, nor the cellar, nor the vineyard.
–Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751)
Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751), Page: Quotes, Prayer (how), Quote Author
At the beginning of each day, and of meditation, Mass, and Communion, declare to God that you desire to belong to Him entirely, and that you will devote yourself wholly to acquiring the spirit of prayer and of the interior life.
–Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751)
Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Let your own motto be: Have patience, and let God do the work. For, when all is said, you can do no other. Yours is merely to say: I adore and resign myself; Fiat!
–Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751)
Gregory the Great (c. 540-604), Humility, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow. Nobody must rejoice in the security of their own good deeds. As long as we are still experiencing the uncertainties of this life, we do not know what end may follow…we must not trust in our own virtues.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
Church, Gregory the Great (c. 540-604), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
No one does more harm in the Church than he who has the title or rank of holiness and acts perversely.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
Acceptance, Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
Don’t get upset with your imperfections. It’s a great mistake because it leads nowhere – to get angry because you are angry, upset at being upset, depressed at being depressed, disappointed because you are disappointed. So don’t fool yourself. Simply surrender to the Power of God’s Love, which is always greater than our weakness.
–Saint Francis de Sales, (1567-1622)
