Let the meaning of your words…
Let the meaning of your words shine forth, let it blaze out from them. Let no word escape your lips in vain or be uttered without depth of meaning.
–Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-397)
Esteem for silence…
There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.
–Saint Benedict (480-547)
Life and death are one…
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
–Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
So great a blessing…
Anyone who is not begun to pray, I beg, for the love of the Lord, not to miss so great a blessing. There is no place here for fear, but only desire.
–Saint Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582)
Do not lose heart…
Therefore if you occasionally lapse into sin, do not lose heart and cease trying to advance, for God will draw good even out of our falls.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Do God’s will, not our own…
Our obligation is to do God’s will, and not our own. We must remember this if the prayer that our Lord commanded us to say daily is to have any meaning on our lips. How unreasonable it is to pray that God’s will be done, and then not promptly obey it when he calls us from this world!
–Saint Cyprian of Carthage (c. 200-258)
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