Therefore, you must make a sound and firm resolution to submit yourselves totally to His will and, with a lively and steadfast faith, to receive from Him what you have to do for love of Him. And in this (whatever may happen) to persevere with constancy to the very end.
–Saint Angela Merici (1474-1540)
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 – 1226)
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)
I desire but this one grace, and long to be consumed like a burning candle in His holy Presence every moment of the life that remains to me… and to acknowledge that burning love He shows us in this wonderful Sacrament. Here His love holds Him captive till the end of time. It is of this one can truly say, “Love triumphs, love enjoys, Love finds in God its joys.”
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647- 1690)
You say to me ‘Show me your God.’ I answer you, ‘Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.’
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
