Choose to want less…
Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
— Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
Free of inordinate love…
Anyone, therefore, who shall with simplicity of heart direct his intention to God and free himself from all inordinate love or dislike for any creature will be most fit to receive grace and will be worthy of the gift of devotion. For where the Lord finds the vessel empty He pours down His blessing.
— Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
Cheerful givers do not…
Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.
— Saint Julian of Norwich (1342–1416)
Seek nothing or everything…
To see a religious who seeks nothing but God sad, or one who seeks everything except God happy, is a great miracle.
— Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Don’t attach your heart…
Don’t desire well if you do not have. Don’t attach your heart too closely to what you already have.
— Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
How to fast…
We must fast with our whole heart, that is to say, willing, wholeheartedly, universally and entirely.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
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