If I am not mistaken, when we say that we can’t find God and that He seems so far away, we only mean that we can’t feel His presence…. Many people do not distinguish between God and the feeling of God, between faith and the feeling of faith– which is a very great problem. It seems to them that when they do not feel God, they are not in His presence. This is a mistake.
–Saint Frances de Sales (1567-1622)
Take care, take care, never to close your heart to anyone.
–Saint Peter Faber (1506-1546)
You may fast regularly, give alms, and pray without ceasing, but as long as you hate your brother, you will not be numbered among the children of God.
–Saint Louis de Blois (1506-1566)
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
–GK Chesterton (1874-1936)
Nothing sweeter than love, nothing stronger or higher or wider, nothing is more pleasant, nothing fuller, and nothing better in heaven or on earth, for love is born of God and cannot rest except in God.
–Saint Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471)
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
–Saint Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471)
