Humility, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Humility is the salt of virtue. As salt gives flavor to food, so humility gives perfection to virtue. Without salt, food goes bad easily, and without humility, virtue is easily spoiled by pride, vainglory, impatience – and it perishes. There is a humility which a man gains by his own struggles: knowing his own insufficiency, accusing himself for his failings, not allowing himself to judge others. And there is a humility into which God leads a man through the things that happen to him: allowing him to experience afflictions, humiliations, and deprivations.
–Saint Philaret of Moscow (1782-1867)
Love (others), Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love our enemies in such way that we pity their souls as if they were our own children.
–Saint Silouan the Athonite (1866-1938)
Love (others), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone… we must be compassionate!
–Saint Josephine Bakhita (1869-1947)
Love (simple acts), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest thing right and doing it all for love…Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Discipleship, Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Great deeds are forbidden me. I cannot preach the Gospel nor shed my blood – but what does it matter? Others toil instead of me, and I, a little child, keep close by the throne of God and I love for those who fight. Love proves itself in deeds. I will scatter flowers, perfuming the Divine Throne, and I will sweetly sing my hymn of love. These flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least of actions for love.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Detachment, Discipleship, Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
We can prove we love our Lord only by choosing Him in preference to anything else.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
