Expect much…
Expect much of God, and he will do much for you.
— Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Speak and act with simplicity…
We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.
— Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)
It is because of faith…
It is because of faith that we exchange the present for the future.
— Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1577-1622)
But faith alone …
God has many ways of drawing us to Himself. He sometimes hides Himself from us: but faith alone, which will not fail us in time of need, ought to be our support, and the foundation of our confidence, which must be all in God.
— Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)
Unity of life in God…
For those blessed souls who have entered into the unity of life in God, everything is one: rest and activity, looking and acting, silence and speaking, listening and communicating, surrender in loving acceptance and an outpouring of love in grateful songs of praise.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
Resting in God…
There is a state of resting in God, an absolute break from all intellectual activity, when one forms no plans, makes no decisions and for the first time really ceases to act, when one simply hands over the future to God’s will and ‘surrenders himself to fate.’
— Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
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