Love my fellow Christian…
What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
No enemy except yourself…
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
Truly loves his enemy…
A man truly loves his enemy when he is not offended by the injury done to himself, but for love of God feels burning sorrow for the sin his enemy has brought on his own soul, and proves his love in a practical way.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
God is compassion…
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Love never hates…
Love never hates anyone, never reproves anyone, never condemns anyone, never grieves anyone, never abhors anyone, neither faithful nor infidel nor stranger nor sinner nor fornicator, nor anyone impure, but instead it is precisely sinners, and weak and negligent souls that it loves more, … imitating Christ Who called sinners, and ate and drank with them.
–Abba Ammonas (Desert Father)
Our part to seek…
It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
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