Discipleship, Eucharist, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
So, since Christ died for us, out of love, it follows that when we offer the sacrifice in commemoration of his death, we are asking for love to be given us by the coming of the Holy Spirit. We beg and we pray that just as through love Christ deigned to be crucified for us, so we may receive the grace of the Holy Spirit; and that by that grace the world should be a dead thing in our eyes and we should be dead to the world, crucified and dead.
–Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe (Fifth — Sixth Century)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Repentance, Spiritual (life)
Nothing so moves a sinner to repentance as eternity, and nothing is so useful to every Christian as remembrance and contemplation of eternity. Eternity restrains a man from sin, calms his passions, turns him from the world and all its vanity, makes his heart contrite, gives birth to tears of repentance, incites him to prayer, and works true sighing of the heart.
–Saint Tikhon (1724-1783)
Eucharist, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Material food first changes into the one who eats it, and then, as a consequence, restores to him lost strength and increases his vitality. Spiritual food, on the other hand, changes the person who eats it into itself. Thus the effect proper to this Sacrament [of the Eucharist] is the conversion of a man into Christ, so that he may no longer live, but Christ lives in him; consequently, it has the double effect of restoring the spiritual strength he had lost by his sins and defects, and of increasing the strength of his virtues.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Acceptance, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
There is no such thing as bad weather. All weather is good because it is God’s.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Eucharist, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Do not think that because He ascended to heaven that you have been forgotten, because you cannot be both loved and forgotten. He left you the greatest pledge that He had when He ascended there, namely the canopy of his precious flesh in memory of His love.
–Saint John of Ávila (1500-1569)
