Resplendent with beauty…
If things created are so full of loveliness, how resplendent with beauty must be the One who made them!
–Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231)
Sublime magnificence of created things…
If there is anyone who is not enlightened by this sublime magnificence of created things, he is blind. If there is anyone who, seeing all these works of God, does not praise Him, he is dumb; if there is anyone who, from so many signs, cannot perceive God, that mis foolish.
–Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274)
Stretching unto God…
A blind feeling of one’s own being, stretching unto God
–The Cloud of Unknowing (Fourteenth Century)
Hanging by God’s thread…
Hanging by God’s thread of pure Love
–Saint Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510)
Contemplation is a…
Contemplation is a perception of God or of divine things, simple, free, penetrating, certain, proceeding from love, and tending to love.
–Louis Lallemant (1578–1635)
Continual communion through…
Continual communion through all things by quite simply doing everything in the presence of the Holy Trinity
–Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906)
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