Attend to the needs…
When we attend to the needs of those in want, we give them what is theirs, not ours.
— Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
The Holy Spirit…
We read in sacred Scripture that the Holy Spirit breathes where he pleases, and we should also realize that he breathes when he pleases.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
Suffer the wicked with patience…
The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
Contemplative life…
The pursuit of the contemplative life is something for which a great and sustained effort on the part of the powers of the soul is required, an effort to rise from earthly to heavenly things, an effort to keep one’s attention fixed on spiritual things, an effort to pass beyond and above the sphere of things visible to the eyes of flesh, an effort finally to hem oneself in, so to speak, in order to gain access to spaces that are broad and open. There are times indeed when one succeeds, overcoming the opposing obscurity of one’s blindness and catching at least a glimpse, be it ever so fleeting and superficial, of boundless light.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
Temptation passes…
Temptation passes through three stages: suggestion, pleasure in the temptation, and consent.
— Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
Pursuit of the contemplative life…
The pursuit of the contemplative life is something for which a great and sustained effort on the part of the powers of the soul is required: an effort to rise from earthly to heavenly things, an effort to keep one’s attention fixed on spiritual things, an effort to pass beyond and above the sphere of things visible to the eyes of flesh.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
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