Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give you with the utmost humility and simplicity. For God, Who has an infinite love for obedience, frequently renders profitable the counsels we take from others, but especially from those who are the guides of our souls.
–Saint Frances de Sales (1567-1622)
It is not what we do that makes us holy, but we ought to make holy what we do.
— Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Jesus went into the temple and boldly drove out those that bought and sold. And when all was cleared, there was nobody left but Jesus. Observe this, for it is the same with us: when he is alone he is able to speak in the temple of the soul. If anyone else is speaking in the temple of your soul, Jesus will keep still, as if he were not at home. And he is not at home wherever there are strange guests-guests with whom the soul holds conversation, guests who are seeking to bargain. If Jesus is to speak and be heard, the soul must be alone and quiet.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
