No one should…
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
To drink of this spring…
Do not be afraid that the Lord Who has called us to drink of this spring will allow you to die of thirst.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
The day of our homecoming…
We ought never to forget, beloved, that we have renounced the world. We are living here now as aliens and only for a time. When the day of our homecoming puts an end to our exile, frees us from the bonds of the world, and restores us to paradise and to a kingdom, we should welcome it. What man, stationed in a foreign land, would not want to return to his own country as soon as possible? Well, we look upon paradise as our country, and a great crowd of our loved ones awaits us there, a countless throng of parents, brothers and children longs for us to join them.
–Saint Cyprian of Carthage (c. 200-258)
As a body….
As the body must be born after completing its development in the womb, so a soul, when it has reached the limit of life in the body allotted it by God, must leave the body.
–Saint Anthony of Egypt (c. 251-356)
How to die…
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Desire the love….
I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy.
–Walter Hilton (1340-1396)
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