Aspire to live perfect…
Wherever we may be, we can and should aspire to live a perfect life.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Be calm and peaceful…
God wishes our care to be a calm and peaceful one as we proceed faithfully along the road marked out for us. As for the rest, we should rest in God’s fatherly care, trying as far as is possible to keep our soul at peace, for the place of God is in peace and in the peaceful and restful heart. You know that when the lake is very calm – and when the winds do not agitate its waters – on a very serene night the sky with all its stars is so perfectly reflected in the water that looking down into its depths the beauty of the heavens is as clearly visible as if we were looking up on high. So when our soul is perfectly calm, unstirred and untroubled by the winds of superfluous cares, unevenness of spirit and inconstancy it is very capable of reflecting in itself the image of Our Lord.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Our hearts must be…
Our hearts must be changed; they must be purified as gold from which the dross is melted by fire before it comes from the crucible bright and glittering.
–Saint John of Ávila (1500-1569)
To touch the poor…
To touch the poor to know, love and serve God is to do in part what the Savior of the world came to do on earth, to bring about the Kingdom of God.
–Saint Joan Antide-Thouret (1765-1826)
True holiness consists…
Make sure you let God’s grace work in your souls by accepting whatever he gives you, and giving him whatever he takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God’s will with a smile. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your own weakness.
–Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
To forget ourselves…
The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
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