Category: Mystics & Saints

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”

“Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.”

“Love follows knowledge.”

“Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.”

“There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.”

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

“The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.”

“Wonder is the desire of knowledge.”

“Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His.
If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.”

“We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.”

“There is no doubt that God will never be wanting to us, provided that He finds in us that humility which makes us worthy of His gifts, the desire of possessing them, and the promptitude to co-operate industriously with the graces He gives us.”

“Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest:
To give and not count the cost;
To fight and not heed the wounds;
To toil and not seek for rest;
To labour and not ask for any reward Save that of know that we do Thy will.”

“Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to His beloved is that of overcoming self.”

“It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.”

“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received–only what you have given.”

“We must sow the seed, not hoard it.”

“May you make progress every day!”

“Arm yourself with prayer instead of a sword; be clothed with humility instead of fine raiment.”

“What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.”

“I have made a Bridge of my Word, of my only-begotten Son, and this is the truth. I have given you the Bridge of my Son, in order that, passing across the flood (of the tempestuous sea of this life), you may not be drowned.”

“To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.”

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