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Hate no one…

We ought to hate no one for God never comes where there is no love of our neighbors.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)

Let us make fools of ourselves…

We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect from others, and it is easy to find ourselves aiming for the result rather than the cause. Let us aim for joy, rather than respectability. Let us make fools of ourselves from time to time, and thus see ourselves, for a moment, as the all-wise God sees us.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)

If there were no tribulation…

If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)

Anger is subdued by meekness…

Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness we practice and make known our virtue, and also cause the indignation of our brother to cease, and deliver his mind from perturbation.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)

The Holy Scriptures…

I hear no one boast that he has a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owns a Bible written in gold characters. And tell me then, what profit is this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)

Christ gave us…

Christ gave us his flesh to eat in order to deepen our love for him. When we approach him, then, there should be burning within us a fire of love and longing… The wise men paid homage to Christ’s body even when it was lying in a manger… They only saw Christ in a manger, they saw nothing of what you now see, and yet they approached him with profound awe and reverence. You see him, not in a manger but on an altar, not carried by a woman but offered by a priest; and you see the Spirit bountifully poured out upon the offerings of bread and wine.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)

Keep three things in mind…

I pray you for the love of Jesus Christ to keep three things in mind, and they are: the hour of death, from which no one can escape; the pains of Hell; the glory and blessedness of Paradise.
–Saint John of God (1495-1550)

The Passion of Jesus Christ…

There is no higher contemplation than that of the Passion of Jesus Christ, and whoever has a devotion to it will not be lost, with the help of Jesus Christ.
–Saint John of God (1495-1550)

Have charity always…

Have charity always, for where charity is not found God is not there, even though he is everywhere.
— Saint John of God (1495-1550)

Trust Jesus alone…

We must detach ourselves from all, for the all who is Jesus Christ, and we must trust him alone.
–Saint John of God (1495-1550)

One was saved; one was not…

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)

Two works of mercy…

Two works of mercy set a person free: forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)

Not alice without prayer…

As our body cannot live without nourishment, so our soul cannot spiritually be kept alive without prayer.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)

Make daily progress towards God…

As Christians, our task is to make daily progress toward God. Our pilgrimage on earth is a school in which God is the only teacher, and it demands good students, not ones who play truant. In this school we learn something every day. We learn something from commandments, something from examples, and something from sacraments. These things are remedies for our wounds and materials for study.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)

Before prayer try…

Before prayer, endeavor to realize whose Presence you are approaching, and to whom you are about to speak. We can never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before whom the angels tremble.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

Today our Savior is born…

Dearly beloved, today our Saviour is born; let us rejoice. Sadness should have no place on the birthday of life. The fear of death has been swallowed up; life brings us joy with the promise of eternal happiness. No one is shut out from this joy; all share the same reason for rejoicing. Our Lord, victor over sin and death, finding no man free from sin, came to free us all. Let the saint rejoice as he sees the palm of victory at hand. Let the sinner be glad as he receives the offer of forgiveness. Let the pagan take courage as he is summoned to life. In the fullness of time, chosen in the unfathomable depths of God’s wisdom, the Son of God took for himself our common humanity in order to reconcile it with its creator. He came to overthrow the devil, the origin of death, in that very nature by which he had overthrown mankind.
–Saint Leo the Great (c. 400-461)

God works in secret…

God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery, transformation, God and Grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)

Listening and hearing..

There is a very important distinction to be made between listening and hearing. Sometimes we listen to things, but we never hear them. True listening brings us in touch even with that which is unsaid and unsayable. Sometimes the most important thresholds of mystery are places of silence. To be genuinely spiritual is to have great respect for the possibilities and presence of silence. …When you listen with your soul, you come into rhythm and unity with the music of the universe.
–John O’Donohue (1956-2008)

Receive the Eucharist…

When we receive the Eucharist, we are on the shore of the sea, taking just a few drops into our hand, and still the Infinite remains.
–Charles Journet (1891–1975)

God is whispering…

There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out of the soul, or sink low, Then we hear these whisperings of God.
–Frederick Faber (1814-1863)

Listening is being…

Listening is being silent with another person in an active way. It is silently bearing with another person. Some people are silent, but they are not open and active. They are either asleep or dead within themselves. The true listener is one who is quiet and yet sensitive toward another person, open and active, receptive and alive. Listening is participating in another life in a most creative and powerful way. It is neither coercive nor pushy. Rather, it is bearing one another’s burdens.
–Morton Kelsey (1917-2001)

Hearing with the soul…

The awakening of the spiritual senses can happen to all of us. We are all capable of ‘hearing with the soul.’
–Saint Hildegarde of Bingen (1098-1179)

The worst wolves…

The worst wolves in sheep’s clothing are the heretics and then, bad prelates.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Tell God everything…

If He gives me some task I am content and I thank Him. If he gives me nothing, I still thank Him. Since I do not deserve to receive anything more than that, and then I tell God everything that is in my heart. I tell him about my pains and my joys, and then I listen. If you listen, God will also speak to you. For with the good Lord, you have to both speak and listen. God always speaks to you when you approach him plainly and simply.
–Saint Catherine Laboure (1806-1876)

At Christmas…

We desire to be able to welcome Jesus at Christmas-time, not in a cold manger of our heart, but in a heart full of love and humility, a heart so pure, so immaculate, so warm with love for one another.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)

Christ is born…

Christ is born, so that by His birth He might restore your nature.
–Saint Peter Chrysologus (c. 380 – c. 450)

Day of gladness…

In this night of reconciliation, let none be angry or gloomy. In this night that stills everything, let nothing threaten or disturb. This night belongs to the sweet One; let nothing bitter or harsh be in it. In this night that belongs to the meek One, let there be nothing high or haughty. In this day of pardoning, let us not exact punishments for trespasses. In this day of gladness, let us not spread sadness.
–Saint Ephrem of Syria (c. 306 – 373)

Live in the world…

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)

The contemplative soul…

The traits of the solitary bird are five: first, it seeks the highest place; second, it withstands no company; third, it holds its beak in the air; fourth, it has no definite color; fifth, it sings sweetly. These traits must be possessed by the contemplative soul. It must rise above passing things, paying no more heed to them than if they did not exist. It must likewise be so fond of silence and solitude that it does not tolerate the company of another creature. It must hold its beak in the air of the Holy Spirit, responding to his inspirations, that by so doing it may become worthy of his company. It must have no definite color, desiring to do nothing definite other than the will of God. It must sing sweetly in the contemplation and love of its Bridegroom.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)

Moderation in life…

The more a man uses moderation in his life, the more he is at peace, for he is not full of cares for many things-servants, hired laborers and acquisition of cattle. But when we cling to such things, we become liable to vexations arising from them and are led to murmur against God. Thus our self-willed desire (for many things) fills us with turmoil and we wander in the darkness of a sinful life, not knowing ourselves.
–Saint Anthony of Egypt (c. 251-356)

A virtuous life pleasing to God…

If you consider riches and their full enjoyment to be merely a short-lived illusory vanity, if you know that a virtuous life pleasing to God is better than riches, you will hold fast to this conviction and keep it in memory; then you will not sigh, complain or reproach anyone, but will thank God for everything, when you see that men worse than you are praised for eloquence or erudition and wealth. Insatiable desire of riches and pleasures, love of fame and vainglory, coupled with ignorance of truth, are the worst passions of the soul.
–Saint Anthony of Egypt (c. 251-356)

God’s dream for us is a…

God’s dream for us is a passion within us that will allow for no substitute, and this dream is a restlessness that will only find rest in God.
–Gerald M. Fagin (1938-2012)

Shaped by generosity…

Growing in the virtue of generosity is a disposition of the heart to give spontaneously of oneself, to reach out to others in love and concern, and to seek the good in others. A generous heart does not measure its response and it goes beyond what is expected or required or owed. A generous heart asks for nothing in return… The heart of a disciple is shaped by generosity.
–Gerald M. Fagin (1938-2012)

Call upon our Lady…

If you ever feel distressed during your day — call upon our Lady — just say this simple prayer: ‘Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.’ I must admit — this prayer has never failed me.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)

This good mother…

Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)

Beyond finite comprehension…

What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by a purposeful, benign Creator is one thing. To believe that this Creator took on human vesture, accepted death and mortality, was tempted, betrayed, broken, and all for love of us, defies reason. It is so wild that it terrifies some Christians who try to dogmatize their fear by lashing out at other Christians, because tidy Christianity with all answers given is easier than one which reaches out to the wild wonder of God’s love, a love we don’t even have to earn.
–Madeline L’Engle (1918-2007)

True hope seeks…

True hope seeks the Kingdom of God alone and is convinced that everything earthly that is necessary for this transitory life will unfailingly be given. The heart cannot have peace until it acquires this hope. It gives peace to the heart and brings joy to it.
–Saint Seraphim of Sarov (1754-1833)

Believe that Christ is present…

Richard of Saint Victor says: “I receive Christ not alone on the Cross, but also in His Transfiguration on Mount Tabor.” That is to say, in all our distresses, in all our painful inward destitution, we may boldly believe that Christ is present with us.
–Johannes Tauler (1300–1361)

Let the soul of Mary…

You too, my people, are blessed, you who have heard and who believe. Every soul that believes — that soul both conceives and gives birth to the Word of God and recognises his works. Let the soul of Mary be in each one of you, to proclaim the greatness of the Lord. Let the spirit of Mary be in each one of you, to rejoice in God. According to the flesh only one woman can be the mother of Christ but in the world of faith Christ is the fruit of all of us. For every soul can receive the Word of God if only it is pure and preserves itself in chastity and modesty. The soul that has been able to reach this state proclaims the greatness of the Lord just as Mary did and rejoices in God its savior just like her.
–Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-397)

We honor his mother…

We never give more honor to Jesus than when we honor his Mother, and we honor her simply and solely to honor him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek – Jesus, her Son.
–Saint Louis de Montfort (1673-1716)

Our heavenly mother…

Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on it’s boundless grief and how precious is our soul.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)

Take time, slow down, be awake…

Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary yet is wondrously present.
–Edward Hays (1931-2016)

Such silent sitting…

We need to find some time each day to sit quietly in peace, in stillness, savoring the mystery of God within us. Such silent sitting will not only prepare us to find “eternal rest” at the time of our death; it will help us find infinite peace in the midst of the problems of life.
–Edward Hays (1931-2016)

God gave his Son to Mary…

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)

Would that you might pray also…

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
–Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

Prayer is a conversation…

Prayer is… a conversation with God. Though whispering, consequently, and not opening the lips, we speak in silence, yet we cry inwardly. For God hears continually the whole inward conversation.
–Saint Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-215)

Compassion is…

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
–Karen Armstrong (1944-

Compassion is aptly summed up…

Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism.
–Karen Armstrong (1944-

Invoke the Blessed Virgin…

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)

Upon our Lady…

All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady.
–JRR Tolkien (1892-1973)

Remember she is our mother…

What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)

Guided by Mary…

As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Through the Mother of God…

The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy.
–Saint John Damascene (c. 676-750)

Have Mary as mother…

If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother.
–Saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941)

Mary models faith…

Mary at her Annunciation models faith for us. She shows us that faith is more than assent, but is also trust, commitment, obedience, and submission. Mary trusted in God’s promises, was obedient to God’s word of invitation in her life, surrendered to the mystery before her, and committed herself to be part of God’s plan of salvation in Jesus.
–Gerald M. Fagin (1938-2012)

God speaks to our hearts…

God has something unique to say to each one of us. God desires to speak to our hearts words of love and forgiveness or consolation or encouragement, or words that invite us to share more deeply in his life. He may want to say to us words of challenge and inspiration that call us to live more generously and compassionately with and with love to those around us… I believe [these] are words that God desires to speak to our hearts:
You are loved.
You are gifted.
You are forgiven.
You are called.
You are invited.
You are sent.
–Gerald M. Fagin (1938-2012)

Each word of Jesus…

Dearly Beloved, each word and deed of Our Saviour Jesus Christ is for us a lesson in virtue and piety. For this end also did He assume our nature, so that every man and every woman, contemplating as in a picture the practice of all virtue and piety, might strive with all their hearts to imitate His example. For this He bore our body, so that as far as we could we might repeat within us the manner of His life. And so therefore, when you hear mention of some word or deed of His, take care not to receive it simply as something that incidentally happened, but raise your mind upwards towards the sublimity of what He is teaching, and strive to see what has been mystically handed down to us.
–Saint Basil the Great (330-379)

Silence is the beginning…

Silence is the beginning of peace. It is in silence that we learn that there is more to life than life seems to offer. There is beauty and truth and vision wider than the present and deeper than the past that only silence can discover… Noise protects us from confronting ourselves, but silence speaks the language of the heart.
–Joan Chittester, (1936-

Silence is the…

Silence is the discipline by which the inner fire of God is tended and kept. –Henri Nouwen (1932–1996)

The friend who…

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief or bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, anot curing, not healing, and face us with the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
–Henri Nouwen (1932–1996)

Being useless and silent…

Being useless and silent in the presence of God belongs to the core of all prayer. In the beginning, we often hear our own unruly inner noises more loudly than God’s voice. This is at times very hard to tolerate. But slowly, very slowly, we discover that the silent time makes us quiet and deepens our awareness of ourselves and God. Then, very soon, we start to miss these moments when we are deprived of them, and before we are fully aware of it, an inner momentum has developed that draws us more and more into silence and closer to that still point where God speaks to us.
–Henri Nouwen (1932–1996)

Prayer and meditation…

Prayer and meditation are as necessary for the life of the spirit as fresh air, food, and sunlight are for the body. If we think of prayer as talking to God, with or without words, our own or those of others, then we can think of meditation as listening to God — an attitude of open, silent receptiveness.
–Molly Monahan (20th Century)

Our satisfaction lies in…

Our work is the love of God. Our satisfaction lies in submission to the divine embrace.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)

The power of God…

The power of this Child, Son of God and Son of Mary, is not the power of this world, based on might and wealth; it is the power of love. It is the power which created the heavens and the earth, which gives life to all creation: to minerals, plants and animals; it is the force which attracts man and woman, and makes them one flesh, one single existence; it is the power which gives new birth, pardons faults, reconciles enemies, and transforms evil into good. It is the power of God. This power of love led Jesus Christ to strip himself of his glory and become man; it led him to give his life on the cross and to rise from the dead. It is the power of service, which inaugurates in our world the Kingdom of God, a kingdom of justice and peace.
–Pope Francis (1936-

Good and bad theology…

If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God’s name, it was bad theology.
–Karen Armstrong (1944-

A sacrifice must empty ourselves…

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. 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 weakness.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)

God is a friend of silence…

We need to “find” God, who cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is a friend of silence. The more we engage in silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)

Much of our work…

Much of our work is invisible and intangible. You cannot measure it by human means; and sometimes a period of silent reflection will accomplish more good than if the time had been spent in outward activity. Our work is immaterial where we are and what we do; the thing that matters is who we are and what we intend. Constant preoccupation with exterior work handicaps our knowledge of ourselves and of our intentions.
–Francis Xavier Ford (1892-1952)

You will be able to pray…

Strive to render your mind deaf and dumb at the time of prayer, and then, you will be able to pray.
–Evagrius Ponticus (345-399)

Better served by our silence…

It is a good discipline to wonder in each new situation if people wouldn’t be better served by our silence than by our words.
–Henri Nouwen (1932–1996)

Revelation of glory…

The Word of God, born once in the flesh (such is his kindness and his goodness), is always willing to be born spiritually in those who desire him. In them he is born as an infant as he fashions himself in them by means of their virtues. He reveals himself to the extent that he knows someone is capable of receiving him. He diminishes the revelation of his glory not out of selfishness but because he recognises the capacity and resources of those who desire to see him. Yet, in the transcendence of mystery, he always remains invisible to all.
–Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)

Let self-will cease…

What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)

Inordinate love of the flesh…

Inordinate love of the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body we kill the soul. Take even bread with moderation, lest an overloaded stomach make you weary of prayer.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)

So in the saints…

As a drop of water poured into wine loses itself, and takes the color and savor of wine; or as a bar of iron, heated red-hot, become like fire itself, forgetting its own nature; or as the air, radiant with sun-beams, seems not so much to be illuminated but to be light itself; so in the saints all human affections melt away by some unspeakable transmutation into the will of God… The human substance will endure, but in another beauty, a higher power, a greater glory.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)

God is light…

Let no one deceive you. God is light, and to those who have entered into union with him, he imparts of his own brightness to the extent that they have been purified.
–Saint Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)

Every moment is a grace…

Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)

The meaning of life is found…

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and “being present” in full awareness.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)

Let us work at being renewed…

Hour by hour, day by day, let us by penitence work at being renewed, so that we may learn to fight and wrestle with the devils, our enemies who are always at war with us.
–Saint Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)

We shall deliver our souls…

We see many men who are moved by the desire of transitory things to endure many toils and labors. They will travel great distance and even disregard wife and children and every other glory and enjoyment, and prefer nothing to their purpose in order that they may secure the attainment of their goal. If, then, there are some who make every effort to attain transitory and temporal ends even to the point of laying down their very lives, shall we not deliver our souls and bodies to death for the sake of the King of kings and Lord of lords (I Tim 6:15), the Creator and Sovereign of all things?
–Saint Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)

Listen less to listen more…

Listen rather less to your own thoughts, so as to be able to listen more to God.
–François Fénèlon (1651-1715)

Let us give ourselves to God…

Let us give ourselves to God without any reserve, and let us fear nothing. He will love us, and we shall love Him. His love, increasing every day, will take the place of everything else to us. He will fill our whole hearts; He will deprive us only of those things that make us unhappy. He will cause us to do in general, what we have been doing already, but which we have done in an unsatisfactory manner; whereas, hereafter, we shall do them well, because they will be done for His sake. Even the smallest actions of a simple and common life will be turned to consolation and recompense. We shall meet the approach of death in peace; it will be changed for us into the beginning of the immortal life.
–François Fénèlon (1651-1715)

We can reach spiritual maturity…

We do not reach the final stage of spiritual maturity through divine power and grace alone, without ourselves making any effort; but neither on the other hand do we attain the final measure of freedom and purity as a result of our own diligence and strength alone, apart from any divine assistance. “If the Lord does not build the house, it is said, and protect the city, in vain does the watchman keep awake, and in vain do the laborer and the builder work.”  (Psalm 127:1)
–Saint Macarius the Great (295-392)

Concealed sins of the soul…

The virgin soul that desires to be united to God must keep itself pure not only from overt sins like unchastity, murder, theft, gluttony, backbiting, falsity, avarice, greed and so on; but to an even greater degree it must keep itself pure from sins that are hidden, such as desire, self-esteem, love of popularity, hypocrisy, love of power, wiliness, malice, hatred, unbelief, envy, self-love, affectation and other things of this kind. According to Scripture, these concealed sins of the soul are just as pernicious as the overt sins.
–Saint Macarius the Great (295-392)

The kingdom is within you…

Be peaceful within yourself, and heaven and earth will be at peace with you. Be diligent to enter into the treasury that is within you, and you will see the treasury of Heaven: for these are one and the same, and with one entry you will behold them both. The ladder of the Kingdom is within you, hidden in your soul. Plunge deeply within yourself, away from sin, and there you will find steps by which you will be able to ascend.
–Saint John Climacus (c. 525-606)

The bitterness of penance…

The sweetness of the apple makes up for the bitterness of the root. The hope of gain makes pleasant the perils of the sea. The expectation of health mitigates the nauseousness of medicine. One who desires the kernel breaks the nut. So one who desires the joy of a holy conscience swallows down the bitterness of penance.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)

Walk cautiously and prudently…

Rise up from the sleep of the age. Walk cautiously and prudently. Cast off folly. Take hold of wisdom. In this way you will be able to avoid changing yourself constantly as you walk through the vicissitudes of the times. Rather you will find a unity within yourself even amid the diversity of the times.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)

Remain little, hidden…

Remain little, hidden by humility in all God wants from you, as being only the instruments of his work.
–Saint Jeanne Jugan (1792-1879)

There are many…

There are many who are hypocrites although they think they are not, and there are many who are afraid of being hypocrites although they certainly are not. Which is the one and which is the other God knows, and none but He.
–Walter Hilton (1340-1396)

As much as…

As much as a cup could hold all the waters of the ocean, so much can our little mind hold the ocean of the Godhead, of divine wisdom.
–Augoustinos Kantiotis (1907-2010)

Don’t make yourself…

Don’t make yourself into anyone other than the one he intended, and you will always have God in your mind.
–Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231)

Regard yourself all…

Regard yourself all the more as a sinner because you cannot feel yourself to be what you are.
–Walter Hilton (1340-1396)

Coming of Christ…

We do not preach only one coming of Christ, but a second as well, much more glorious than the first. The first coming was marked by patience; the second will bring the crown of a divine kingdom…At the first coming he was wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger. At his second coming he will be clothed in light as in a garment. In the first coming he endured the cross, despising the shame; in the second coming he will be in glory, escorted by an army of angels. We look then beyond the first coming and await the second… Our Lord Jesus Christ will therefore come from heaven. He will come at the end of the world, in glory, at the last day. For there will be an end to this world, and the created world will be made new.
–Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 313-386)

No one heals…

No one heals himself by wounding another.
–Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-397)

Without being changed…

If anyone claims to have met Christ without being changed, he has not met Him at all.
–Peter Kreeft (1937-

Death is a journey…

And thus this death is a journey for everyone. You must always be journeying: from decay to incorruptibility, from mortality to immortality, from turbulence to peace. Do not be alarmed by the word ‘death’ but rejoice at the good that the journey will bring. For what is death except the burial of vice and the raising up of virtue?
–Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-397)

Mourning is a…

Mourning, according to God, is sadness of soul, and the disposition of a sorrowing heart, which ever madly seeks that for which it thirsts; and when it fails in its quest, it painfully pursues it, and follows in its wake grievously lamenting.
–Saint John Climacus (c. 525-606)

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