Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Your Lord is Love:
love Him and in Him all men,
as His children in Christ.
Your Lord is a fire:
do not let your heart be cold,
but burn with faith and love.
Your Lord is light:
do not walk in darkness of mind,
without reasoning or understanding, or without faith.
Your Lord is a God of mercy and bountifulness:
be a source of mercy and bountifulness to your neighbors.
If you will be such, you will find salvation yourself with everlasting glory.
–Saint John of Kronstadt (1829-1908)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Thank God every day with your whole heart for having given to you life according to His image and likeness – an intelligently free and immortal life…Thank Him also for again daily bestowing life upon you, who have fallen an innumerable multitude of times, by your own free will, through sins, from life unto death, and that He does so as soon as you only say from your whole heart: ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before Thee!’ (Luke 15:18).
–Saint John of Kronstadt (1829-1908)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Whatever you are doing, with whomever you are speaking, whether you are going somewhere or sitting, let your mind be with the Lord. You will forget yourself, and stray from this path; but again turn to the Lord and rebuke yourself with sorrow. This is the discipline of spiritual attentiveness.
–Saint Theophan the Recluse (1815-1894)
Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
With God, the more one seems to lose the more one gains. The more He strikes off of what is natural, the more He gives of what is supernatural. He is loved at first for His gifts, but when these are no longer perceptible He is at last loved for Himself. It is by the apparent withdrawal of these sensible gifts that He prepares the way for that great gift which is the most precious and the most extensive of all, since it embraces all others.
–Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751)
John of the Cross (1542-1591), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Spiritual persons suffer great trials from the fear of being lost on the road and that God has abandoned them. Their soul was taking pleasure in being in that quietness and ease, instead of working with its faculties.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice of many buds, and mighty vigils; and places burdens enough on the flesh, that it may be more subdued. But if the body is weak, fallen into illness, the rule of discretion does not approve of such a method.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
