Acknowledgement of…
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
Jesus has many…
Jesus has now many lovers of the heavenly kingdom but few bearers of his cross.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
Repentance is a medicine…
Do not be ashamed to enter again into the Church. Be ashamed when you sin. Do not be ashamed when you repent. Pay attention to what the devil did to you. These are two things: sin and repentance. Sin is a wound; repentance is a medicine. Just as there are for the body wounds and medicines, so for the soul are sins and repentance. However, sin has the shame and repentance possesses the courage.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Prayer extinguishes…
As water extinguishes fire, so prayer extinguishes the heat of the passions.
— Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
A Christian who…
Nothing is more frigid than a Christian, who cares not for the salvation of others.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
God is pleased…
God is more pleased by one work, however small, done secretly, without desire that it be known, than a thousand done with the desire that people know of them. Those who work for God with purest love not only care nothing about whether others see their works, but do not even seek that God himself know of them.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
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