You can love…
You can show your love to others by not wishing that they should be better Christians.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
Unwilling listener…
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
— Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
A good sign…
When a spiritual person feels a great calmness of mind in asking anything of God, it is a good sign that God either has granted it, or will do so shortly.
— Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
It is not a bad death…
And yet, my dear brethren, I am going to tell you that none of these are bad deaths. Provided that a person has lived well, if he dies in his prime, his death will not fail to be valuable in God’s eyes. We have many saints who died in the prime of their lives. It is not a bad death, either, to die at the hands of the executioner. All the martyrs died at the hands of executioners.To die a sudden death is not to die a bad death either, provided one is ready. We have many saints who died deaths of that sort.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Cares of the world…
As a man whose head is under water cannot inhale pure air, so a man whose thoughts are plunged into the cares of this world cannot absorb the sensations of that new world.
–Saint Isaac of Syria (Seventh Century)
Reading the lives of saints…
Reading the lives of the Saints is a great means to preserve piety.
— Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
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