We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not repent, when he could have done so and did not, the Devil tears his soul from his body with such anguish and distress that only a person who has experienced it can appreciate it.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
Let us abandon everything to the merciful providence of God.
–Saint Albert the Great (c. 1206-1280)
Now there is no one who approaches God with a true and upright heart who is not tested by hardships and temptations. So in all these temptations see to it that even if you feel them, you do not consent to them, but bear them patiently and calmly with humility and long suffering.
–Saint Albert the Great (c. 1206-1280)
You induce yourself to reverence by admiring God’s immensity and beholding your smallness.
–Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274)
In the most noble part of the soul, the domain of our spiritual
powers, we are constituted in the form of living and eternal mirror of God; we bear in it the imprint of His eternal image and no other image can enter there.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)
[Sin is] loving what God hates, and hating what God loves.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
