Be peace-loving. Peace is a precious treasure to be sought with great zeal. You are well aware that our sins arouse God’s anger. You must change your life, therefore, so that God in his mercy will pardon you.
–Saint Francis of Paola (1416-1507)
Fix your minds, then, on the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. Inflamed with love for us, he came down from heaven to redeem us. For our sake he endured every torment of body and soul and shrank from no bodily pain. He himself gave us an example of perfect patience and love. We, then, are to be patient in adversity.
–Saint Francis of Paola (1416-1507)
Pain and Love are almost synonymous words.
–Saint Lydwine of Schiedam (1380-1433)
When we find that — through God’s grace and forgiveness — we are living spiritually harmonious lives, then we’ll understand that disobedience is without a doubt more horrible than hell, and more painful. Why? Because it goes against the essential grain of our good, God-given nature.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
For I saw most truly that where our Lord appears, peace is received and wrath has no place; for I saw no kind of wrath in God, neither briefly, nor for long.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
For until I am one with him I can never have true rest nor peace. I can never know it until I am held so close to him that there is nothing in between.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
