The greatness of contemplation can…
The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
The trees will teach…
The trees and stones will teach you what you never learn from the masters.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Have charity and humility…
Let us have charity and humility, and give alms, for almsgiving cleanses our souls from the filth of sin. At death we lose all that we have in this world, but we take with us charity and the alms-deeds we have done, and for these we shall receive a great reward from God.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
In detachment…
In detachment, the spirit finds quiet and repose for coveting nothing.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
The souls that journeys…
The soul that journeys to God, but doesn’t shake off it’s cares and quiet it’s appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Be detached…
Be interiorly detached from all things and do not seek pleasure in any temporal thing, and your soul will concentrate on goods you do not know.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
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