Our true worth…
Our true worth does not consist in what human beings think of us. What we really are consists in what God knows us to be.
–Saint John Berchmans (1599-1621)
Denying of ourselves…
This is all that is necessary in order to become a follower of Jesus Christ; the denying of ourselves, and the mortifying of self-love. Do we desire to be saved? we must conquer all, to secure all. How wretched is the soul that allows itself to be guided by self-love!
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
Wishes to find Jesus…
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
The only motive…
The only motive behind my religious life is the love of God. I have tried to do everything for him. Whatever happens to me, whether I am lost or saved, I will continue to act purely for the love of God.
–Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)
Do little things…
Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, and who lives our life: and do the greatest things as though they were little and easy, because of His omnipotence.
–Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Be so good that…
I want to be so good that people will say “If this is what the servant is like, what must the master be?”
–Blessed Charles De Foucauld (1858-1916)
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