Never close your heart…
Take care, take care, never to close your heart to anyone.
–Saint Peter Faber (1506-1546)
Hate your brother or sister…
You may fast regularly, give alms, and pray without ceasing, but as long as you hate your brother, you will not be numbered among the children of God.
–Saint Louis de Blois (1506-1566)
Love our enemies…
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
–GK Chesterton (1874-1936)
The love of God…
The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Love the abandoned…
Love even the most abandoned: love whatever faith in Christ remains in them: if they have lost this, love their virtues; if these have gone, love the holy likeness they bear, love the blood of Christ through which you trust they are redeemed.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Love of our…
One of the things which we must be very firm about, if we are to please our Lord, is to cast far from us everything that could remove us from the love of our brethren. We should make every effort to love them with a tender charity, for Supreme Truth has said: “This is how all will know you are my disciples, etc.” (John 13:35)
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
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