Labors and prays…
He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.
–Saint Benedict (480-547)
Unless God opens the hearing…
In vain will our sacred discourses strike the external ear, unless God by a spiritual gift opens the hearing of the interior man.
–Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe (Fifth — Sixth Century)
Those who bring up children…
The words of those who bring up children will be as milk if they be good, but as deadly poison if they be evil.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
The proof of love is…
The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
Only wonder can comprehend…
Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.
–Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)
Take care, O priest…
O Priest! Take care lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: “He saved others, himself he cannot save!”
–Saint Norbert (c. 1080-1134)
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