Everything comes from love…
Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Our good Lord’s tender love…
Because of our good Lord’s tender love to all those who who shall be saved, he quickly comforts them, saying, “The cause of all this pain is sin. But all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.”
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
True love consists…
God made known to me, what true love consists in and gave light to me about how, in practice, to give proof of it to Him. True love of God consists in carrying out God’s will. To show God our love in what we do, all our actions, even the least, must spring from our love of God.
–Saint Faustina (1905-1938)
Faith without love…
As memory of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not produce the light of knowledge in the soul.
–Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)
Love is great…
Love is a great thing so long as it continually returns to its fountainhead, flows back to its source, always drawing from there the water which constantly replenishes it. Of all the movements, sensations and feelings of the soul, love is the only one in which the creature can respond to the Creator and make some sort of similar return however unequal though it be. For when God loves, all he desires is to be loved in return; the sole purpose of his love is to be loved, in the knowledge that those who love him are made happy by their love of him.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Love is a unitive and transforming…
For the nature of love is of a unitive and transforming power which transforms the lover into what he loves, or alternatively, makes the lover one with the other, and vice versa, in so far as is possible.
–Saint Albert the Great (c. 1206-1280)
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