Who does best…
He does much in the sight of God who does his best, be it ever so little.
–Saint Peter of Alcantara (1499-1562)
Live quietly and…
Just as grass does not grow at all on a well-traveled road, even if you sow seed on the road, because the ground is trampled down, so it is with us: Live quietly, apart from things, and you will see plants growing that you had no knowledge of because they were within you and you were trampling them down.
–The Desert Fathers (and Mothers)
Tempests and struggles…
I carry within me three lives, all very strong: family life with its multiple sorrows of a thousand kinds, that is, the life of a mother; the life of the Works of the Cross with all its sorrows and weight, which at times crushes me until I have no strength left; and the life of the spirit or interior life, which is the heaviest of all, with its highs and lows, its tempests and struggles, its light and darkness. Blessed be God for everything!
–Blessed Concepcion Cabrera de Armida (1862-1937)
Die to yourself…
If you die to the world and to yourself, you will begin to live for Christ.
–Saint Macarius the Great (295-392)
Dying to self…
this doctrine of dying to self is the law for every Christian, for Christ said: “If anyone wants to follow Me, let him take up his cross and deny himself.” (Mk 8:34) But this doctrine which seems so austere, takes on a delightful sweetness when we consider the outcome of this death— life in God in place of our life of sin and misery.
–Saint Elizabeth of the Blessed Trinity (1880-1906)
Govern passions…
A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.
–Saint Dominic (1170-1221)
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