To become saints…
The great thing is to become saints.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Many words and long discourses…
I do not advise you to use multiplicity of words in prayer: many words and long discourses being often the occasions of wandering. Hold yourself in prayer before God, like a dumb or paralytic beggar at a rich man’s gate.
— Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)
Fuller satisfaction…
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books.
— Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Master of spiritual life…
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
— Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Hold by faith…
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
— Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Every good work…
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
— Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
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