Live a godly life…
It is impossible for you to live a godly life if you are in love with pleasure and money.
— Isidore the Priest (a Desert Father)
Love to be silent…
Love to be silent rather than to speak; for silence saves up, but speaking fritters away.
–Isaiah (a Desert Father)
To experience God…
It is impossible for a man to experience the sweetness of God as long as he is experiencing the sweetness of the world. But if, on the other hand, he tastes the sweetness of God, he will hate the world.
–The Desert Fathers (and Mothers)
When you arise…
When you arise at dawn each day, make a fresh start in every virtue and commandment of God with greatest patience, with fear and long-suffering, in the love of God, with all spiritual and physical fervor, and with much humiliation; enduring affliction of the heart and prevention, with much prayer and intercession, with groans, in purity of the tongue and custody of the eyes.
–Saint John the Dwarf (Fourth Century)
Mysticism is the…
Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience — one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.
–Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941)
Don’t shirk duty…
Don’t shirk your duty. Carry it out conscientiously, even though others neglect theirs.
–Saint Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975)
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