Patience is power…
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing, it waits on the right time to act, for the right priciples and in the right way.
— Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
True patience is…
True patience is to suffer the wrongs done to us by others in an unruffled spirit and without feeling resentment. Patience bears with others because it loves them; to bear with them and yet to hate them is not the virtue of patience but a smokescreen for anger.
— Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
Music that sings…
Underneath all the texts, all the sacred psalms and canticles, these watery varieties of sounds and silences, terrifying, mysterious, whirling and sometimes gestating and gentle must somehow be felt in the pulse, ebb, and flow of the music that sings in me. My new song must float like a feather on the breath of God.
— Saint Hildegarde of Bingen (1098-1179)
Sin is a flight…
Sin, which is a flight from God, is no fun.It gives no joy, fulfillment or peace, and constantly betrays us.
— Carlo Carretto (1910-1988)
An excuse for sin.
And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.
— Saint Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510)
How terrible is sin…
Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and there remain, living both in soul and body, than to support such a sight. And if the sea were all fire they would cast themselves therein and never leave it, if they were certain of meeting the sin on doing so.
— Saint Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510)
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