Grace, Page: Quotes, Spiritual (life)
Sometimes the soul finds rest in the deepest quietness, and joy and perfect peace in perfectly focused spiritual delight and ineffably deep repose. At other times the soul is stirred up by grace and taught lessons in ineffable wisdom and understanding and knowledge of the spirit, in ways that pass beyond all our ability to speak about them. . . . Manifold are the patterns of grace, and most varied are the ways it leads the soul. Sometimes, as God decides, grace gives rest to the soul. At other times it puts it to work.
–Saint Macarius the Great (295-392)
Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
God is in all things and in all places. There is no place or thing in this world where God is not truly present. Just as where birds fly they always encounter the air, so also wherever we go or wherever we are, we find ourselves in God’s presence.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Grace, Page: Quotes
The commands of the Gospel are nothing else than God’s lessons, the foundations on which to build up hope, the supports for strengthening faith, the food that nourishes the heart. They are the rudder for keeping us on the right course, the protection that keeps our salvation secure. As they instruct the receptive minds of believers on earth, they lead safely to the kingdom of heaven… Now we are enlightened by the light of grace, and are to keep to the highway of life, with the Lord to precede and direct us.
–Saint Cyprian of Carthage (c. 200-258)
Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
The Lord has given us many counsels and commandments to help us toward salvation. He has even given us a pattern of prayer, instructing us on how we are to pray. He has given us life, and with his accustomed generosity, he has also taught us how to pray. He has made it easy for us to be heard as we pray to the Father in the words taught us by the Son… What more effective prayer could we then make in the name of Christ than in the words of his own prayer?
–Saint Cyprian of Carthage (c. 200-258)
Church, Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Many lamps can be lit from one fire, and each one will shine out with the same nature of light. So it is when Christians are enkindled from that one nature and one divine fire, which is the Son of God. Then the lamps of their hearts are lit and burn brightly before him on the earth.
–Saint Macarius the Great (295-392)
Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
If God wants you to do something, he’ll make it possible for you to do it, but the grace he provides comes only with the task and cannot be stockpiled beforehand. We are dependent on him from hour to hour, and the greater our awareness of this fact, the less likely we are to faint or fail in a crisis
–Louis Cassels (1922-1974)
