Action and contemplation…
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Stretching unto God…
A blind feeling of one’s own being, stretching unto God
–The Cloud of Unknowing (Fourteenth Century)
Hanging by God’s thread…
Hanging by God’s thread of pure Love
–Saint Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510)
Contemplation is a…
Contemplation is a perception of God or of divine things, simple, free, penetrating, certain, proceeding from love, and tending to love.
–Louis Lallemant (1578–1635)
Continual communion through…
Continual communion through all things by quite simply doing everything in the presence of the Holy Trinity
–Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906)
Seeing God in..
Seeing God in everything and everything in God with completely extraordinary clearness and delicacy
–Blessed Marie of the Incarnation (1599-1672)
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