Acceptance, Adversity, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
When tested by some trial you should try to find out not why or through whom it came, but only how to endure it gratefully, without distress or rancor….If it is not easy to find anyone conforming to God’s will who has not been put to the test, we ought to thank God for everything that happens to us.
–Saint Mark the Ascetic (Fifth Century)
Adversity, Discipleship, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Suffering
How can your patience be rewarded if no adversity test it? How can you be a friend of Christ if you are not willing to suffer any hardship? Suffer with Christ and for Christ if you wish to reign with Him.
–Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471)
Acceptance, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Whatever the Lord sends us, He does only for the benefit and salvation of our soul. It may be that, in the beginning, it doesn’t seem to bring us any benefit, but later we’ll realize that what God has allowed us to go through has been better for us than what we ourselves would have wanted to happen.
–Saint Nil Sorski (c.1453-1508)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
God has made you in his image that you might in your person make the invisible Creator present on earth.
–Saint Peter Chrysologus (c. 380 – c. 450)
Discipleship, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Christian, recognize your dignity and, now that you share in God’s own nature, do not return to your former base condition by sinning. Remember who is your head and of whose body you are a member. Never forget that you have been rescued from the power of darkness and brought into the light of the Kingdom of God.
–Saint Leo the Great (c. 400-461)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
God, to procure His glory, sometimes permits that we should be dishonored and persecuted without reason. He wishes thereby to render us conformable to His Son, who was calumniated and treated as a seducer, as an ambitious man, and as one possessed.
–Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660)
