The victory of the Cross…
No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.
–Saint Leo the Great (c. 400-461)
The whole world preaches…
Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.
–Saint Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)
Every blade of grass…
Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God’s single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.
–Peter Kreeft (1937- )
Get to heaven…
We cannot get to Heaven on a featherbed.
—Saint Thomas More (1478-1535)
Practice self-denial…
Begin to practice self-denial in little things, so that later you will be able to do so in bigger ones.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
Let the Word of God…
Let the Word of God come; let it enter the church; let it become a consuming fire, that it may burn the hay and stubble, and consume whatever is worldly; there is heavy lead of iniquity in many; let it be molten by divine fire; let the gold and silver vessels be made better, in order that understanding and speech, refined by the heat of suffering, may begin to be more precious.
–Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-397)
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