Let self-will cease…
What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Inordinate love of the flesh…
Inordinate love of the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body we kill the soul. Take even bread with moderation, lest an overloaded stomach make you weary of prayer.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
So in the saints…
As a drop of water poured into wine loses itself, and takes the color and savor of wine; or as a bar of iron, heated red-hot, become like fire itself, forgetting its own nature; or as the air, radiant with sun-beams, seems not so much to be illuminated but to be light itself; so in the saints all human affections melt away by some unspeakable transmutation into the will of God… The human substance will endure, but in another beauty, a higher power, a greater glory.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
God is light…
Let no one deceive you. God is light, and to those who have entered into union with him, he imparts of his own brightness to the extent that they have been purified.
–Saint Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)
Every moment is a grace…
Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
The meaning of life is found…
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and “being present” in full awareness.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
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