Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
So then – in the time of labors and persecutions, of insults and injuries inflicted by one’s neighbor, of mental conflicts and deprivation of spiritual consolations, by the Creator or by the creature (by the Creator in His gentleness, when He withdraws the feeling of the mind, so that it does not seem as if God were in the soul, so many are its pains and conflicts – and by fellow-creatures, in conversation or amusement, or when the soul thinks that it loves more than it is loved) – in all these things, I say that the soul perfected by humility says, “My Lord, behold Thy handmaid: be it done unto me according to Thy word, and not according to what I want with my senses.”
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Julian of Norwich (1342-1416), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
I know full well that the more the souls sees of God, the more it desires him, by his grace.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
Augustine (354-430), Detachment, Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Confession, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Faith is to believe what you do not see. The reward of faith is to see what you believe.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Discipleship, Humility, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
Let us then follow Christ’s paths which he has revealed to us, above all the path of humility, which he himself became for us. He showed us that path by his precepts, and he himself followed it by his suffering on our behalf. In order to die for us – because as God he could not die – the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. The immortal One took on mortality that he might die for us, and by dying put to death our death. This is what the Lord did, this the gift he granted to us. The mighty one was brought low, the lowly one was slain, and after he was slain, he rose again and was exalted. For he did not intend to leave us dead in hell, but to exalt in himself at the resurrection of the dead those whom he had already exalted and made just by the faith and praise they gave him.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
