Spiritual persons suffer great trials from the fear of being lost on the road and that God has abandoned them. Their soul was taking pleasure in being in that quietness and ease, instead of working with its faculties.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Idleness is hell’s fishhook for catching souls.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually… even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Mercy is born of that love which we ought to exercise towards each other. If we do not, God will require it of us at the Judgement Day; and, where He findeth not the requisite mercy, He will refuse mercy, as He Himself has said.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
This becoming one with the Eternal Goodness cannot come to pass but by an absolute renunciation of our self, and all that is ours, natural or spiritual; for in the same measure that a man comes out from himself, in that measure does God enter in with His divine grace, and he who loses his life shall find it.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
