Worship by actions…
Worship a little in words, but more by your actions, and rather by keeping the Law than by admiring the Lawgiver.
–Saint Gregory Nazianzen (329-c. 391)
Suffering is a…
Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
God sees you…
Go in where you will, God sees you; light your lamp, God sees you; quench its light, God sees you. Fear God who ever beholds you. If you will sin, seek a place where God cannot see you, then do what you will.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
The saints have…
The saints have no need of honor from us; neither does our devotion add the slightest thing to what is theirs. Clearly, if we venerate their memory, it serves us, not them. But I tell you, when I think of them, I feel myself inflamed by tremendous yearning.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Every sorrow and pain…
When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
Alert to the devil…
We need to be especially alert to the evil subtlety of Satan. His one desire is to keep people from having a mind and heart disposed to their Lord and God…He wants to extinguish the light of the human heart, and so he moves in by means of worldly busyness and worry.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
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