Your soul must…
Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show.
–Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-397)
Hope in mercy and grace….
In what can I hope, then, or in whom ought I trust, save only in the great mercy of God and the hope of heavenly grace?
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
Virtue and vice…
When God intends to grant a man any particular virtue, it is His way to let him be tempted to the opposite vice.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Love Jesus above everything….
Love our Lord, Jesus Christ, above everything in the world, because the more you love Him, the more He will love you. Have charity always, for where charity is not found God is not there, even though he is everywhere.
–Saint John of God (1495-1550)
One who knows God…
He who knows God knows how to raise his mind immediately to God’s love, not only when he beholds the starry heavens, but even on considering a blade of grass, or the smallest thing of any kind.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Simplicity and gentleness…
Simplicity and gentleness are a very saintly mode of spiritual life, but you cannot learn this in an external way. It must suffuse itself mystically within you so that your soul embraces this mode of life through the grace of God.
–Saint Porphyrios (1906-1991)
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