Living each present day…
Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Scruples and temptations…
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
Fortitude and perseverance…
And although many conflicts of diverse kinds should abound in prayer, and darkness of mind with much confusion, the devil making the soul feel that her prayer was not pleasing to God, nevertheless, she ought not to give up on account of those conflicts and shadows, but to abide firm in fortitude and long perseverance, considering that the devil so does to draw her away from prayer the mother, and God permits it to test the fortitude and constancy of that soul.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
How God wants our soul to be…
You know…that to join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Makes all things well…
And so our good Lord answered to all the questions and doubts which I could raise, saying most comfortingly: I may make all things well, and I shall make all things well, and I will make all things well; and you will see yourself that every kind of thing will be well.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
God is all love…
Some of us believe that God is all-powerful and may do everything; and that is all wise and can do everything; but as for believing he is all love and will do everything, there we hold back. In my view nothing hinders God’s lovers more than the failure to understand this.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
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