Abandonment (of self), Discipleship, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Total surrender consists in giving ourselves completely to God – Why must we give ourselves fully to God? Because God has given himself to us. If God, who owes nothing to us, is ready to impart to us no less than himself, shall we answer with just a fraction of ourselves? To give ourselves fully to God is a means of receiving God himself. I for God and God for me. I live for God and give up my own self, and in this way induce God to live for me. Therefore to possess God we must allow him to possess our soul.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Eucharistic Adoration, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Each time we look upon Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, He raises us up into deeper union with Himself, opens up the floodgates of His merciful love to the whole world, and brings us closer to the day of His final victory ‘where every knee will bend and proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord’ The reign of God is already in your midst. The coming of Jesus to us in the Eucharist is assurance of His promise of final victory: “Behold, I come to make all things new.”
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Abandonment (of self), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
You must first forget yourself, so that you can dedicate yourself to God and your neighbor.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Church, Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Many lamps can be lit from one fire, and each one will shine out with the same nature of light. So it is when Christians are enkindled from that one nature and one divine fire, which is the Son of God. Then the lamps of their hearts are lit and burn brightly before him on the earth.
–Saint Macarius the Great (295-392)
Abandonment (of self), Humility, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
It is our emptiness and lowliness God needs, not our plenitude.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Abandonment (of self), Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self.
–Saint Madeline Sophie Barat (1779-1865)
