My nothingness…
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the center of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
–Bede Griffiths (1906-1993)
The more completely…
The more completely I am stripped of all sentiment, all relish, all repose in God, the more do I seem to gain strength and peace of soul, and the more clearly do I see that there is nothing to lean upon but God alone, purely and simply.
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
Oblivious of self…
It seems to me that the saints are souls completely oblivious of self, lost in Him Whom they love, with never a thought of self or of creatures, so that they are able to say with St. Paul: “I live, yet not I, but Jesus Christ lives in me.”
–Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906)
What humility is…
Complete trust in God – that’s what holy humility is. Complete obedience to God, without protest, without reaction, even when some things seem difficult and unreasonable. Abandonment to the hands of God.
–Saint Porphyrios (1906-1991)
We wish to do the will of God…
We wish to do on earth what the angels do in heaven. The will of God in heaven, the will of God on earth; and consequently, paradise in heaven, paradise on earth.
–Saint Gerard Majella (1726-1755)
Few souls understand…
Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to Him and if they were to allow His grace to mold them accordingly.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
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