Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name. If, therefore, I do anything or think anything or say anything or know anything that is not purely for the love of God, it cannot give me peace, or rest, or fulfillment, or joy. To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
This is what it means to seek God perfectly: to withdraw from illusion and pleasure, from worldly anxieties and desires, from the works that God does not want, from a glory that is only human display; to keep my mind free from confusion in order that my liberty may be always at the disposal of His will; to entertain silence in my heart and listen for the voice of God. And then to wait in peace and emptiness and oblivion of all things.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Discipleship, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
If you die to the world and to yourself, you will begin to live for Christ.
–Saint Macarius the Great (295-392)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Repentance, Struggle (with Sin)
We can hope. We are precisely the ones that Jesus came to save, for we are being lost. Yes, without Him we are perishing at every moment. We can hope, for whatever we may be guilty of, Jesus wants to save us. The more sinful we are, the closer to death, the deeper our state of despair for our body and our soul, the more it can be said that Jesus wants to save us, for He came to save what was about to be lost. We must never be discouraged, but always hope. We are on the edge of a gulf, we are about to sink…we are sinking. We are just the ones Jesus came to save. He wants to save us because we are sinking. He is infinitely good and infinitely powerful. To the very last, as long as there is a breath of life left, all can hope in Him.
–Blessed Charles De Foucauld (1858-1916)
Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Those who love God will find pleasure in everything; those who do not love God will never find true pleasure in anything.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Repentance
When it happens that we commit some fault, we must also be gentle with ourselves. Getting at ourselves after doing something wrong is not humility but a subtle form of pride…. To be angry at ourselves after the commission of a fault is a greater fault than the one just committed, ted, and it will lead to many others.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
