Discipleship, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Fight the good fight until you reach the end, clinging fast to those qualities that will assure your passage to love’s goal. I mean: love of humankind, brotherly and sisterly love, hospitality, love of the poor, compassion, mercy, humility, meekness, gentleness, patience, freedom from anger, long-suffering, perseverance, kindness, forbearance, goodwill and peace towards all. Out of these and through these the grace of love is fashioned, which leads one to God who deifies the human being that He Himself fashioned.
–Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)
Adversity, Discipleship, Isaac of Syria (Seventh Century), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
A small affliction borne for God’s sake is better before God than a great work performed without tribulation, because affliction willingly borne brings to light the proof of love. But a work of leisure proceeds from a self-satisfied conscience. That is why the saints were proved by tribulations for Christ’s love, and not by ease. For good works accomplished without toil are the righteousness of those in the world, who do righteous deeds with their possessions but not their bodies, thus gaining nothing within themselves. But you, O struggler, taste within yourself Christ’s suffering, that you may be deemd worthy of tasting His glory. For if we suffer with Him, then we are glorified with Him (cf. Rom. 8:17).
–Saint Isaac of Syria (Seventh Century)
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), Contemplation, Discipleship, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
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)
Discipleship, Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
For all that we are, and all that we have received, from without and from within, these are all the free gifts of God; for which we must thank and praise Him, and with which we must serve Him, if we are to please Him.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)
Discipleship, Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Struggle (with Sin)
To subdue the spirit is harder than to afflict the flesh
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Discipleship, Evangelization, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless we take Him to them. None of us knows when the loveliest hour of our life is striking. It may be when we take Christ for the first time to that grey office in the city where we work, to the wretched lodging of that poor man who is an outcast, to the nursery of that pampered child, to that battleship, airfield, or camp…
–Caryll Houselander (1901-1954)
