Angels can fly…
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
–GK Chesterton (1874-1936)
Holiness is so…
Holiness is something so great and precious that one cannot pay too much for it.
–Saint Claude de la Colombiere (1641-1682)
Gratitude and generosity…
Recognize to whom you owe the fact that you exist, that you breathe, that you understand, that you are wise, and, above all, that you know God and hope for the kingdom of heaven. You have been made a child of God, co-heir with Christ. Where did you get all this, and from whom?…. What benefactor has enabled you to look out upon the beauty of the sky, the sun in its course, the circle of the moon, the countless number of stars, with the harmony and order that are theirs, like the music of a harp? Who has blessed you with rain, with the art of husbandry, with different kinds of food, with the arts, with houses, with laws, with states, with a life of humanity and culture, with friendship and the easy familiarity of kinship? … Is it not God who asks you now in your turn to show yourself generous … Because we have received from him so many wonderful gifts, will we not be ashamed to refuse him this one thing only, our generosity?
–Saint Gregory Nazianzen (329-c. 391)
Accept all things…
Where can a man warm himself better than by the fire? So it is in God. Man must bring all that concerns him to God, and leave all with Him. God will provide for him in the best of ways. He must trust all things to God; and, in that trust, he must be ready to accept all things, as for the best, and rest in the divine peace.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300–1361)
Grow closer to…
You don’t have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Give yourself entirely to God…
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
— Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
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