How to die in all…
Whoever knows how to die in all will have life in all.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Give ourselves to God…
We must give ourselves to God altogether. God makes all his own the soul that is wholly given to him.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Down into hell…
He who does not go down into hell while he is alive, runs a great risk of going there after he is dead.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
The Lord grants…
The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Submit yourselves totally…
Therefore, you must make a sound and firm resolution to submit yourselves totally to His will and, with a lively and steadfast faith, to receive from Him what you have to do for love of Him. And in this (whatever may happen) to persevere with constancy to the very end.
–Saint Angela Merici (1474-1540)
The soul pleasing to God…
Then the soul, so divested of its every wish and clothed with the will of God, is very pleasing to God. Like an unbridled horse, it runs most swiftly from grace to grace, from virtue to virtue; for it has no bridle that holds or prevents it from running, since it has severed from itself every inordinate appetite and impulse of its self-will, which are bands and bridles that do not allow the souls of spiritual men to run.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
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