Guard your heart…
Do your utmost to guard your heart, for out of it comes life.
–Walter Hilton (1340-1396)
Blessed stillness gives birth…
Blessed stillness gives birth to blessed children: self-control, love and pure prayer.
— Saint Thalassios the Libyan (6th-7th Centuries)
The conscientious reader…
The conscientious reader will be more concerned to carry out what he has read than merely to acquire knowledge of it. In reading we aim at knowing, but we must put into practice what we have learned in our course of study.
–Saint Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636)
Read good books…
Read good and useful books, and abstain from reading those that only gratify curiosity.
— Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660)
Maintain a spirit of peace…
Maintain a spirit of peace and you will save a thousand souls.
–Saint Seraphim of Sarov (1754-1833)
Only one death, only one life…
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life… If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
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