Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
God will not stop anyone coming to drink his living water. Neither does he insist that some travel one way to and others another. God’s mercy is great, but he forces no one to drink. He gives us the ability to follow and to drink in ways. Numerous stream flow from this abundant spring. Some are large and some are small. There are wading pools for faithful children. We will never lack the water we need to quench our thirst. Push on. The only reason you’re here is to keep striving. It is better to die than to miss this water. The Lord may keep you a little thirsty through this life, but you need not fear that he will fail to give you what you need. Let us never fail him.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Gregory the Great (c. 540-604), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
My friends, consider the greatness of this solemn feast that commemorates God’s coming as a guest into our hearts! If some rich and influential friend were to come to your home, you would promptly put it all in order for fear something there might offend your friend’s eyes when he came in. Let all of us then who are preparing our inner homes for God cleanse them of anything our wrongdoing has brought into them.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
What truly matters is not how to get the most out of life, but how to recollect yourself so that you can fully give yourself.
— Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Death, Francis of Assisi (1181–1226), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
Keep a clear eye toward life’s end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God’s creature. What you are in His sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing you have received…but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
John Chrysostom (347-407), Page: Quotes, Quote Author
Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness we practice and make known our virtue, and also cause the indignation of our brother to cease, and deliver his mind from perturbation.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328), Page: Quotes, Quote Author
We feel an inkling of the perfection and stability of eternity, for there is neither time nor space, neither before nor after, but everything present in one new, fresh-springing now where millenniums last no longer than the twinkling of an eye.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
