Everyone is capable of inward contemplative prayer, and it is a terrible shame that almost all people have it in their heads not to do it. We are all called to this prayer as we are all called to eternal life. Contemplative prayer is nothing more than heartfelt affection and love. What is necessary is to love God and to focus on him.
–Jean Guyon (1648-1717)
The Sacred Heart of Christ is an inexhaustible fountain and its sole desire is to pour itself out into the hearts of the humble so as to free them and prepare them to lead lives according to his good pleasure.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690)
Keep your heart in peace and let nothing trouble you, not even your faults. You must humble yourself and amend them peacefully, without being discouraged or cast down, for God’s dwelling is in peace.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690)
You know what you have to do. Correspond faithfully, joyfully and willingly to the lights He gives you.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647- 1690)
The pure, loving gaze that finds God everywhere
–Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)
To be a servant of God means to be charitable towards one’s neighbors, to have an unshakeable determination in the superior part of your soul to obey the will of God, to trust in God with a very humble humility and simplicity, and to lift oneself up as often as one falls, to endure with all your abjections and to quietly put up with others in their imperfections.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
