Augustine (354-430), Discipleship, Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Page: Quotes, Prayer (how), Spiritual (life)
By habitually thinking of the presence of God, we succeed in praying twenty-four hours a day.
–Saint Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)
Page: Quotes, Prayer (how), Prayer (what), Spiritual (life)
If God grants you the gift of prayer, be faithful to it; take care, however, that you do not become slothful in the practice of virtues and the imitation of Jesus.
–Saint Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)
Page: Quotes, Prayer (how), Spiritual (life)
I do not tell you to pray in my way, but in that of God. Leave your soul at liberty to receive the divine impressions according to God’s pleasure. We should pray according to the dictates of the Holy Spirit.
–Saint Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)
Page: Quotes, Prayer (how), Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Stay in the solitude of your own heart before God, and keep three lamps burning before the altar– faith, hope, and love — before the presence of God in your heart.
–Saint Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)
Contemplation, Page: Quotes, Prayer (how), Quote Topic
“O amiable Goodness!” “O infinite Charity!” “O my God and my All!” “O supreme Sweetness!” Make these aspirations, or any others, as God will inspire you; but remember that if, in making one of these short prayers of love, your soul regain her peace and recollection in God, it is unnecessary to make a second; continue, rather, this silence, this repose of the soul in God, which includes excellently all the acts that we can ever make.
–Saint Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)
