Detachment, John Chrysostom (347-407), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Be ready for the Spirit’s filling. This happens only when we have cleansed our souls of falsehood, anger, bitterness, sexual impurity, uncleanness and covetousness. It happens pens only when we have become compassionate, meek and forgiving to one another, only when facetiousness is absent, only when we have made ourselves worthy. Only then does the Spirit come to settle within our hearts, only when nothing is there to prevent it. Then he will not only enter but also fill us.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Augustine (354-430), Creation, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Eucharist, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Death, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
We have not lost those who leave the world from which we must ourselves depart; but we have sent them before us into that other life, where the better they are known to us, the dearer to us will they become.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
The Lord calls himself the vine and those united to him branches in order to teach us how much we shall benefit from our union with him, and how important it is for us to remain in his love. By receiving the Holy Spirit, who is the bond of union between us and Christ our Savior, those who are joined to him, as branches are to a vine, share in his own nature.
–Saint Cyril of Alexandria (378-444)
Detachment, Gregory the Great (c. 540-604), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
The pursuit of the contemplative life is something for which a great and sustained effort on the part of the powers of the soul is required: an effort to rise from earthly to heavenly things, an effort to keep one’s attention fixed on spiritual things, an effort to pass beyond and above the sphere of things visible to the eyes of flesh. –Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
