Love (others), Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Progress everyday in love and in the virtues; if you stop, you will go backwards… Work without ceasing and often examine at what point you have reached: the means of knowing whether you are progressing in the love of God and in all virtues, consists in seeing whether you are growing in love of your neighbor and in humility… If you are growing in these two things, it is certain proof that you are also growing in all perfection.
–Blessed Charles De Foucauld (1858-1916)
Humility, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.
— Saint John of Kronstadt (1829-1908)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Watch your heart during all your life—examine it, listen to it, and see what prevents its union with the most blessed Lord. Let this be for you the science of all sciences, and with God’s help you will easily observe what estranges you from God, and what draws you towards Him and unites you to Him.
–Saint John of Kronstadt (1829-1908)
Death, Page: Quotes, Spiritual (life)
What answer shall we give to our immortal King, Christ our God, Who shall come again in the glory of His Father to judge both the quick and the dead, to declare the secret thoughts of all hearts, and receive from us our answer for every word and deed. O, woe, woe, woe to us who bear the name of Christ, but have none of the spirit of Christ in us; who bear the name of Christ, but do not follow the teaching of the Gospel! Woe to us who ‘neglect so great salvation’! Woe to us who love the present fleeting, deceptive life, and neglect the inheritance of the life that follows after the death of our corruptible body beyond this carnal veil!
–Saint John of Kronstadt (1829-1908)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Any thought expressed in the Holy Scriptures can become a ‘burning coal’ that will touch the heart as it touched the lips of Isaiah. That is why we should always study the word of God and have it dwelling richly in our heart, as St. Paul says (cf. Col.3:16).
–Zacharias Zacharou (20-21st centuries)
Page: Quotes, Repentance
God wanted all his beloved ones to have the opportunity to repent and he confirmed this desire by his own almighty will. That is why we should obey his sovereign and glorious will and prayerfully entreat his mercy and kindness. We should be suppliant before him and turn to his compassion, rejecting empty works and quarreling and jealousy which only lead to death.
–Saint Clement of Rome (First Century)