Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence; it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men’s hearts with a wondrous sweetness.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
John Vianney (1786-1859), Page: Quotes, Prayer (problems), Quote Author, Quote Topic
It is not surprising, then, that the devil should do everything possible to influence us to give up prayer or to pray badly, because he knows better than we do how terrible it is for hell and how impossible it is that God should refuse us what we ask Him for in prayer.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Nothing in this world but God can fill our heart or fully satisfy our desires … the desires of the human heart cannot be satisfied with the goods of this world, because only the grace of God can quench the thirst of our desires.
–Saint Innocent of Alaska (1797-1879)
Discipleship, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Do you want to do a good deed? Teach the young!
Do you want to perform a holy act? Teach the young!
Do you want to do a holy thing? Teach the young!
Truly, now and for the future, among holy things, this is the holiest.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
Contemplation, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
–Soren Kierkegaard (1830-1855)
Discipleship, Evangelization, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
It is a good thing to contemplate the truth, and better still to pass it on to others. To reflect the light is something more than simply to receive it. It is better to give light, than to shine under a bushel. By contemplation the soul is fed: by the apostolate, it gives itself away.
–Jean-Baptiste Chautard (1858-1935)
