Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
I confide to you a secret which has made my life on earth an anticipated Heaven: the belief that a Being Whose name is Love is dwelling within us at every moment of the day and night, and that He asks us to live in His company.
–Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906)
Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
The past must be abandoned to God’s mercy, the present to our faithfulness, the future to divine providence.
— Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Humility, Page: Quotes, Philip Neri (1515-1595), Quote Author, Quote Topic
To obtain perfectly the gift of humility, four things are required: to despise the world, to despise no person, to despise one’s self, to despise being despised.
— Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Live wholly according to the Spirit, live quietly in peace, have perfect confidence that God will help you.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Page: Quotes, Philip Neri (1515-1595), Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
In the spiritual life there are three degrees: the first may be called the animal life; this is the life of those who run after sensible devotion, which God generally gives to beginners, to allure them onwards by that sweetness to the spiritual life, just as an animal is drawn on by a sensible object. The second degree may be called the human life; this is the life of those who do not experience any sensible sweetness, but by the help of virtue combat their own passions. The third degree may be called the angelic life; this is the life which they come to, who, having been exercised for a long time in the taming of their own passions, receive from God a quiet, tranquil, and almost angelic life, even in this world, feeling no trouble or repugnance in anything. Of these three degrees it is well to persevere in the second, because the Lord will grant the third in His own good time.
— Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Sainthood, Spiritual (life)
All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: to do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.
— Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
