The way of humility…
The way of humility is this: self-control, prayer, and thinking yourself inferior to all creatures.
–Abba Tithoes (a Desert Father)
It is impossible…
Just as one cannot build a ship unless one has some nails, so it is impossible to be saved without humility.
–Saint Synkletike (a Desert Mother) (d.350)
We must sow…
We must sow the seed, not hoard it.
–Saint Dominic (1170-1221)
In times of desolation…
In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.
–Saint Margaret of Cortona (1247-1297)
Christ’s Eucharistic body…
I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ’s Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God.
–Saint Gertrude (1256-1302)
The church is…
The church is a collection of souls, brought together in one by God’s secret grace, though that grace comes to them through visible instruments, and unites them to a visible hierarchy. What is seen, is not the whole of the church, but the visible part of it.
–Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
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