Love must cost…
Love to be real, it must cost— it must hurt— it must empty us of self.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
To love Jesus only when…
What a weakness it is to love Jesus Christ only when He caresses us, and to be cold immediately once He afflicts us. This is not true love. Those who love thus, love themselves too much to love God with all their heart.
— Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647- 1690)
Love speaks little…
Love speaks little. The language of divine love is a burning heart; no words can express its ardors; they make of the loving soul a victim of love, a holocaust, consumed and reduced to ashes in the divine fire of charity.
–Saint Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)
God is all love…
Some of us believe that God is all-powerful and may do everything; and that is all wise and can do everything; but as for believing he is all love and will do everything, there we hold back. In my view nothing hinders God’s lovers more than the failure to understand this.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
Love for God and neighbor…
We must nourish a great love for God and our neighbors; a strong love, an ardent love, a love that burns away imperfections, a love that gently bears an act of impatience, or a bitter word, a love that lets an inadvertence or act of neglect pass without comment, a love that lends itself readily to an act of charity.
–Saint Maria Elisabetta Hesselblad (1870-1957)
More important to love…
Let your heart be more attentive than your head, for the Holy Spirit is love, and to take hold, it is more important to love than to understand.
–Saint Madeline Sophie Barat (1779-1865)
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