Remember she is our mother…
What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
A sacrifice must empty ourselves…
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
God is a friend of silence…
We need to “find” God, who cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is a friend of silence. The more we engage in silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Let self-will cease…
What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Inordinate love of the flesh…
Inordinate love of the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body we kill the soul. Take even bread with moderation, lest an overloaded stomach make you weary of prayer.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
So in the saints…
As a drop of water poured into wine loses itself, and takes the color and savor of wine; or as a bar of iron, heated red-hot, become like fire itself, forgetting its own nature; or as the air, radiant with sun-beams, seems not so much to be illuminated but to be light itself; so in the saints all human affections melt away by some unspeakable transmutation into the will of God… The human substance will endure, but in another beauty, a higher power, a greater glory.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
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