Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence; it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men’s hearts with a wondrous sweetness.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
John Vianney (1786-1859), Page: Quotes, Prayer (problems), Quote Author, Quote Topic
It is not surprising, then, that the devil should do everything possible to influence us to give up prayer or to pray badly, because he knows better than we do how terrible it is for hell and how impossible it is that God should refuse us what we ask Him for in prayer.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
The soul may take dryness and darkness as fortunate symptoms: symptoms that God is freeing her from herself. He is disentangling her from the activity of her faculties. Probably she would have been able to acquire much through this, her own activity, but never as completely, perfectly, and securely as she does now since God takes her by the hand. He is leading her in the darkness… by ways that she herself, in the happiest of wanderings while using her own eyes and feet, would never have succeeded in finding.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), Love (others), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Struggle (with Sin)
The worst thing in the world is not sin; it is the denial of sin by a false conscience – for that attitude makes forgiveness impossible. The unforgivable sin is the denial of sin.
–Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), Love (others), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
