In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish.
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
Truth suffers, but never dies.
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that your sinful soul wants to spew out - as if these puny things could in any way defend you! Watch and see if any of these poisons come out of you when your spirit is pricked by an accusation. Only then can you see yourself as you are, and confess thy sin that is within you and forsake yourself again into the Lord's care.
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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