Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
We receive our faith from the church and keep it safe; and it is as it were a precious deposit stored in a fine vessel, ever renewing its vitality through the Spirit of God, and causing the renewal of the vessel in which it is stored. For this gift of God has been entrusted to the church, as the breath of life to created man, to the end that all members by receiving it should be made alive. And herein has been bestowed on us our means of communion with Christ, namely the Holy Spirit, the pledge of immortality, the strengthening of our faith, the ladder by which we ascend to God.
–Saint Irenaeus (late Second Century)
Grace, Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
God is infinite and without end, but the soul’s desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
We cannot acquire pure prayer unless we cling to God with an open heart, since it is God alone who gives the gift of prayer to one who prays, and God who teaches us mystical knowledge.
–Saint Theodoros the Ascetic (Seventh Century)
Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
–Vincent McNabb (1868-1943)
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God wills only our good; God loves us more than anybody else can or does love us.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
Augustine (354-430), Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Spiritual (life)
Where so ever you are, where so ever you may be praying, God who hears you is within you, hidden within, or God who hears you is not merely by your side, and you have no need to go wandering about, no need to be reaching out to God as though you would touch him with your hands.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
