The goal of all who pursue the spiritual path is to do the will of Christ, their God, to be reconciled with the Father through communion in the Spirit, and so to achieve their salvation. For only in this way is the soul’s salvation attained.
–Saint Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)
Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
The things that we love tell us what we are.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.
–Blessed Angela of Foligno (1248-1309)
Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
One must not always think so much about what one should do; but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us, but we must ennoble our works.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
