Undeceive ourselves…
Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
How to be saved…
Children, we all know how to be saved, but, by our own negligence, we fall short of salvation.
–Saint Synkletike (a Desert Mother) (d. 350)
Self-denial makes you…
Humility makes you strong; self-denial makes you Christlike.
–Saint Columban (543-615)
Fight the good fight…
Fight the good fight until you reach the end, clinging fast to those qualities that will assure your passage to love’s goal. I mean: love of humankind, brotherly and sisterly love, hospitality, love of the poor, compassion, mercy, humility, meekness, gentleness, patience, freedom from anger, long-suffering, perseverance, kindness, forbearance, goodwill and peace towards all. Out of these and through these the grace of love is fashioned, which leads one to God who deifies the human being that He Himself fashioned.
–Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)
Let the world shake…
Let the whole world of mankind tremble the whole world shake and the heavens exult when Christ, the Son of the living God, is on the altar in the hands of a priest. O admirable heights and sublime lowliness! O sublime humility! O humble sublimity! That the Lord of the universe, God and the Son of God, so humbles Himself that for our salvation He hides Himself under the little form of bread! Look, brothers, at the humility of God and pour out your hearts before Him! Humble yourselves, as well, that you may be exalted by Him. Therefore, hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He Who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
Free gifts of God…
For all that we are, and all that we have received, from without and from within, these are all the free gifts of God; for which we must thank and praise Him, and with which we must serve Him, if we are to please Him.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)
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