Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
[God] is a jealous lover and allows no other partnership, and he has no wish to work in your will unless he is there alone with you, by himself. He asks no help, but only you yourself. His will is that you should simply gaze at him, and leave him to act alone. Your part is to keep the windows and the door against the inroads of flies and enemies. And if you are willing to do this, all that is required of you is to woo him humbly in prayer, and at once he will help you.
–Cloud of Unknowing (Fourteenth Century)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
When Jesus is near all is well and nothing seems difficult. When He is absent, all is hard. When Jesus does not speak within, all other comfort is empty, but if He says only a word, it brings great consolation.
–Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Suffering
If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured.
–Saint Colette of Corbie (1381-1447)
Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
To leave God for God’s sake is no loss, but great profit, on the soul’s balance sheet.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
There is no storm worse than calm, and no foe more dangerous than to have no foes.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Struggle (with Sin)
A soul that desires to make progress in the spiritual life must go in the opposite direction from the devil’s leading.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
