God provides…
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Doubt his but…
Doubt is but another element of faith.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
If you wish…
If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.
–Saint John Cassian (c. 360-435)
It is essential…
It is essential to read and meditate on the scriptures. Christianity without the Bible is a contradiction in terms. Preaching not anchored in the scriptures is equally impossible. There is no true religious formation which is not based on the Gospel.
–Carlo Carretto (1910-1988)
Read the Gospel…
Read and re-read ceaselessly the Holy Gospel… so as to always have before one’s mind the actions, words and thoughts of Jesus, in order to think, speak and act like Jesus, to follow the examples and teachings of Jesus, not the examples and ways of behaving of the world. So easily do we fall into this latter, as soon as we take our eyes off the Divine Model.
–Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916)
From silly devotions…
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
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