Success and dryness…
Success and dryness are equally dangerous to those who are given to prayer: the one tends to make the mind swell with pride, the other provokes it to boredom.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Decide which is better…
I leave it to your good sense to decide which is better: to say now to all that is earthly, ‘What does it profit a man?’ Or to cry in vain later on, ‘What did it profit?’
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
The path of virtue…
The path of virtue is painful to nature when left to itself; but nature, assisted by grace, finds it easy and agreeable.
–Blessed Louis de Granada (1505-1588)
Our Father said from our heart…
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Who the Father is…
When I repeat the “Our Father,” my love should make me want to understand Who this Father of ours is and Who the Master is that taught us this prayer.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
We will be judged…
At the end of life we will be judged on how much we have loved.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
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