What was the first rule of our dear Savior’s life? You know if was to do his Father’s will. Well, then, the first purpose of our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills; and thirdly, to do it because it is his will.
–Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821)
I will attempt day by day to break my will into pieces. I want to do God’s Holy Will, not my own!
–Saint Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother (1838-1862)
As soon as I believed there was a God, I understood I could do nothing else but live for him, my religious vocation dates from the same moment as my faith: God is so great. There is such a difference between God and everything that is not.
–Blessed Charles De Foucauld (1858-1916)
God calls all the souls he has created to love him with their whole being, here and thereafter, which means that he calls all of them to holiness, to perfection, to a close following of him and obedience to his will. But he does not ask all souls to show their love by the same works, to climb to heaven by the same ladder, to achieve goodness in the same way.
–Blessed Charles De Foucauld (1858-1916)
It is the living from day to day, taking no thought for the morrow, seeing Christ in all who come to us, and trying literally to follow the Gospel that resulted in this work.
–Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
Do you fast? Give me proof of it by your works.
For what good is it if we abstain from birds and fishes, but bite and devour our brothers?
— Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
