To have pardoned…
Be assured that one great means to find favor when we appear before God is to have pardoned the injuries we have received here below.
–Blessed Louis de Granada (1505-1588)
Listen and attend…
Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.
–Saint Benedict (480-547)
Love with all…
Love with all the powers of your soul this God who is infinitely adorable and his divine Son who wanted to be crucified in reparation for our sins. May his beneficial thought never be absent from your spirit.
–Saint Clare of Assisi (1194-1253)
Summit of happiness…
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
–Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Humility easily accepts grace…
Nothing is more opposed to God than pride, for self-deification is concealed in it, its own nothingness or sin. Thus more than anything humility is acceptable to God, which considers itself nothing, and attributes all goodness, honor, and glory to God alone. Pride does not accept grace, because it is full of itself, while humility easily accepts grace, because it is free from itself, and from all that is created. God creates out of nothing. As long as we think that we can offer something of ourselves, He does not begin His work in us.
–Saint Philaret of Moscow (1782-1867)
Being saved or lost…
You know that there is no middle course, and that it is a question of being saved or lost for all eternity. It depends on us: either we may choose to love God eternally with the Saints in Heaven after we have done violence to self here below by mortifying and crucifying ourselves as they did, or else renounce their happiness by giving to nature all for which it craves.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690)
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