Knowledge and firm faith…
If a man is treated with contempt by someone and yet does not react with anger in either word or thought, it shows he has acquired real knowledge and firm faith in the Lord.
–Saint Mark the Ascetic (Fifth Century)
Have real mercy…
You will never have real mercy for the failings of another until you know and realize that you have the same failings in your soul.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Harboring resentment…
Our minds, like broken records, repeat, rehearse, rehash, and relive the hurts, the angry moments, and the disappointments. If this attitude continues for days, and days turn into years, we can be sure we are indulging in a bad attitude. The luxury of harboring a resentment has cost us dearly, for we are experiencing a “spiritual hangover.” We are allowing something that upset our souls to hang over for months or years and destroy us.
–Mother Angelica (1923-2016)
How much God has put up with…
It isn’t hard to put up with others’ foibles when we realize how much God has put up with from us.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
See the most faults…
The one who sees the most faults in his neighbor is the one who has never looked into his own soul.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
I am a prisoner…
So long as there are poor, – I am poor, – So long as there are prisons, – I am a prisoner, – So long as there are sick, – I am weak, – So long as there is ignorance, – I must learn the truth, – So long as there is hate, – I must love, – So long as there is hunger, – I am famished. – Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
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