It is attachment…
It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690)
Detaching your heart…
You see plainly that I do not mean to advise you to perform great austerities, but rather generously to mortify your passions and inclinations, detaching your heart and emptying it of all that is earthly, and exercising charity towards your neighbor and liberality towards the poor.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690)
To be poor in spirit is…
To be poor in spirit is to be truly poor at the bottom of one’s soul, truly detached from all things, not only to be truly deprived of material goods, not only not to desire them, but to completely forget oneself, to have a soul empty not only of all earthly desires, but of all desire and absolutely so, whether concerning oneself or others, of self, of material things, absolutely empty of everything, and full of God.
–Blessed Charles De Foucauld (1858-1916)
Be ready for death…
Pray that you may always be ready for death, because you know that it may well come at any moment. Mishaps – a fatal fall, a mugging, a drowning, a heart attack, a stroke of lightning, and other things of this kind – occur every day. If we are prepared, we need not fear death, no matter how and when it comes.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
Death is unavoidable…
Many people in this world do not want to think of death. My sons, keep in mind that whether we think of it or not, death is unavoidable.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
Curtness hardens hearts…
Curtness in words or actions only hardens hearts and depresses them, whereas gentleness encourages them and makes them
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
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