Place all your trust…
Place all your trust in the heart of sweet Jesus……Never abandon your faith and renew it always. Faith has never abandoned any man, and far less so will it forsake a soul that yearns to love God.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
Cleanse and humble yourself…
Cleanse your heart of every earthly passion, humble yourself in the dust and pray. Like this you will certainly find God, who will give you peace and serenity in this life and eternal beatitude in the next.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
Real holiness means…
Let us keep before our minds that which makes up real holiness. Holiness means getting above ourselves; it means perfect mastery of all our passions. It means having real and continual contempt for ourselves and for the things of the world to the point of preferring poverty rather than wealth, humiliation rather than glory, suffering rather than pleasure. Holiness means loving our neighbor as ourself for love of God. In this connection holiness means loving those who curse us, who hate and persecute us and even doing good to them. Holiness means living humbly, being disinterested, prudent, just, patient, kind, chaste, meek, diligent, carrying out one’s duties for no other reason than that of pleasing God and receiving from Him alone the reward one deserves.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
Persevere in prayer…
Let us persevere in prayer at all times. For if our Lord seems not to hear us, it is not because He wants to refuse us. Rather, His purpose is to compel us to cry out louder or and to make us more conscious of the greatness of His mercy.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
God put you in the world because…
God did not put you in the world because he needed you. He made you for the purpose of working his goodness in you. God has given you a mind to know him, a memory to recall his favors, a will to love him, eyes to see what he does, and a tongue to sing his praise.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
We can’t find God…
If I am not mistaken, when we say that we can’t find God and that He seems so far away, we only mean that we can’t feel His presence…. Many people do not distinguish between God and the feeling of God, between faith and the feeling of faith– which is a very great problem. It seems to them that when they do not feel God, they are not in His presence. This is a mistake.
–Saint Frances de Sales (1567-1622)
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