Nothing so moves a sinner to repentance as eternity, and nothing is so useful to every Christian as remembrance and contemplation of eternity. Eternity restrains a man from sin, calms his passions, turns him from the world and all its vanity, makes his heart contrite, gives birth to tears of repentance, incites him to prayer, and works true sighing of the heart.
–Saint Tikhon (1724-1783)
Material food first changes into the one who eats it, and then, as a consequence, restores to him lost strength and increases his vitality. Spiritual food, on the other hand, changes the person who eats it into itself. Thus the effect proper to this Sacrament [of the Eucharist] is the conversion of a man into Christ, so that he may no longer live, but Christ lives in him; consequently, it has the double effect of restoring the spiritual strength he had lost by his sins and defects, and of increasing the strength of his virtues.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
There is no such thing as bad weather. All weather is good because it is God’s.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Do not think that because He ascended to heaven that you have been forgotten, because you cannot be both loved and forgotten. He left you the greatest pledge that He had when He ascended there, namely the canopy of his precious flesh in memory of His love.
–Saint John of Ávila (1500-1569)
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
