If we have become servants of him who redeemed us, we look to him who rules over us; no longer do we live for ourselves but for him who acquired us when he exchanged his life (1Cor 6.20). No longer are we masters of ourselves but he who purchased us is the Lord of his own possessions and we are his own property.Therefore, the law of our life is his governing will.
–Saint Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 – c. 395)
Let your one worry be that you never fall away from His grace and that you try to please Him alone, always and everywhere.
–Saint Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621)
Grasp the Creator through His creation, seeing Him reflected in created things as the sun is reflected in water, since in their inner beings they are in varying degrees images of the primal cause of all.
— Saint Theodoric the Great (475-526)
The hound that runs after the hare only because he sees the other hounds running will rest when he is tired, or go home again. But if he runs because he’s seen the hare, he won’t stop, however tired he gets, until he has caught it.
–Walter Hilton (1340-1396)
For this reason I enter into the pleasant garden of Sacred Scripture, to pick the most brilliant green herbs of sacred verses: I devour them by reading,I repeat them by ruminating, and gathering them at last into the high repose of memory,I taste in this way your sweetness.
–John of Fécamp (d. 1079)
