Christians will not be asked how they began but rather how they finished. St. Paul began badly but finished well. Judas’s beginning was praiseworthy but his end was despicable. Many start the climb but few reach the summit.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
When we find that — through God’s grace and forgiveness — we are living spiritually harmonious lives, then we’ll understand that disobedience is without a doubt more horrible than hell, and more painful. Why? Because it goes against the essential grain of our good, God-given nature.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
For I saw most truly that where our Lord appears, peace is received and wrath has no place; for I saw no kind of wrath in God, neither briefly, nor for long.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
For until I am one with him I can never have true rest nor peace. I can never know it until I am held so close to him that there is nothing in between.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
This blessed friend is Jesus; it is his will and plan that we hang on to him, and hold tight always, in whatever circumstances; for whether we are filthy or clean is all the same to his love.
— Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
