Abandonment (of self), Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Obedience means an unassuming, submissive, and pliable humor, and a will in readiness for all that is good. Obedience makes a man submit to the biddings, the forbiddings, and the will of God; it subjects the senses and the animal powers to the higher reason, so that a man may live decently and reasonably. And it makes men submissive and obedient to Holy Church, to the sacraments, to the prelates and their teaching, to their commandments and their counsels, and to all the good customs practiced by Holy Christendom.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)
Abandonment (of self), Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
This is all that is necessary in order to become a follower of Jesus Christ; the denying of ourselves, and the mortifying of self-love. Do we desire to be saved? we must conquer all, to secure all. How wretched is the soul that allows itself to be guided by self-love!
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
Abandonment (of self), Page: Quotes, Spiritual (life)
Live in union with God; when you smile, when you walk, when you write, in one word, everything that you do, do it uniquely in God, with God, and for God.
–Marcel Nguyễn Tân Văn (1928–1959)
Abandonment (of self), Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Occupy yourself less about yourself and more about God.
–Saint Mother Theodore Guerin (1798-1856)
Abandonment (of self), Augustine (354-430), Discipleship, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
Jesus Christ will be Lord of all, or he will not be Lord at all.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Abandonment (of self), Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
And in this inward-drawing touch, we feel that God wills us to be His; and therefore, we must renounce ourselves and leave Him to work our blessedness. But where He touches us by the outpouring touch, He leaves us to ourselves, and makes us free, and sets us in His Presence, and teaches us to pray in the spirit and to ask in freedom, and shows us His incomprehensible riches in such manifold ways as we are able to grasp.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)
