I have been amazed that some are utterly in doubt as to whether or not the Holy Virgin is able to be called the Mother of God. For if our Lord Jesus Christ is God, how should the Holy Virgin who bore him not be the Mother of God?
–Saint Cyril of Alexandria (378-444)
A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.
–Saint Dominic (1170-1221)
The essence and power of abstinence is not in refraining from food, but in expelling from the heart every remembrance of evil and other such things. That is true fasting, and what – above all else – the Lord demands.
–Saint Leo of Optina (1768-1822)
Eternity is the everlasting Now.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
I want eternity. I was born for greater things.
–Saint Stanislaus Kostka (1550-1568)
The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
–Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
