Our good Lord, the Holy Spirit — endless life dwelling in our souls — always protects us and gives us peace. Through grace, God’s Spirit brings each soul to tranquility and makes it obedient and reconciles it to God. Our good Lord constantly leads us on this path of mercy while we’re in this unpredictable life.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
Avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Envy is sadness at another’s good, and joy at another’s evil. What rust is to iron, what moths are to wool, what termites are to wood, that is what envy is to the soul: the assassination of brotherly love. Envy manifests itself in discord, hatred, malicious joy, backbiting, detraction, imputing evil motives, jealousy, and calumny.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
You have asked me to tell you why and how God is to be loved. God himself is the reason why. Without limit is how.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
