It is on humble souls…
It is on humble souls that God pours down His fullest light and grace. He teaches what scholars cannot learn, and mysteries that the wisest cannot solve He can make plain to them.
–Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660)
And so the grace…
And so the grace of God always co-operates with our will for its advantage, and in all things, protects and defends it, in such a way as sometimes even to require and look for some efforts of good will from it that it may not appear to confer its gifts on one who is asleep or relaxed in sluggish ease.
–Saint John Cassian (c. 360-435)
Eternal life…
There are people who pray for eternal life and don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday.
— GK Chesterton (1874-1936)
One way to perfection…
There is only one way to perfection and that is to pray, if anyone points in another direction then they are deceiving you!
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Immediately receive forgiveness…
Thus in whatever age of the present life, any sinner or evil person will be converted to God with his whole heart, he will immediately receive forgiveness for all his past sins.
–Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe (Fifth — Sixth Century)
True freedom is…
Some people by the word freedom understand the ability to do whatever one wants … People who have the more allowed themselves to come into slavery to sins, passions, and defilements more often than others appear as zealots of external freedom, wanting to broaden the laws as much as possible. But such a man uses external freedom only to more severely burden himself with inner slavery. True freedom is the active ability of a man who is not enslaved to sin, who is not pricked by a condemning conscience, to choose the better in the light of God’s truth, and to bring it into actuality with the help of the gracious power of God. This is the freedom of which neither heaven nor earth are restrict.
–Saint Philaret of Moscow (1782-1867)
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