Grace demands…
For as the pen or the dart requires the hand of the user, so grace also demands believers.
–Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 313-386)
Holy readings…
Nurture your soul with holy readings; for the Lord has prepared for you a spiritual table.
–Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 313-386)
Aspire to sanctity…
This daring ambition of aspiring to great sanctity has never left me. I don’t rely on my own merits, because I haven’t any; I put all my confidence in Him who is virtue, who is Holiness itself.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
The heart is the temple of God…
Never forget that spiritual and religious ideas are connected less with the head than with the heart, which is the temple of God, and when the heart is filled with the presence of God the head also is enlightened. For the mind and the eyes of the understanding are useless without the true light, as the natural eyes are without daylight.
–François Fénèlon (1651-1715)
–François Fénèlon (1651-1715)
A will no longer divided…
What God asks is a will which will no longer be divided between Him and any creature, a will pliant in His hands, which neither desires anything nor refuses anything, which wants without reservation everything which He wants, and which never, under any pretext, wants anything which He does not want.
–François Fénèlon (1651-1715)
Never be discouraged…
Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked: on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light. And let us remember, for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till He begin to cure them.
–François Fénelon (1651-1715)
–François Fénelon (1651-1715)
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