Any loving, desiring, or clinging to some person, place, or thing that is not purely for the glory of God renders the soul incapable of giving that same love to God or others to whom, for the glory of God, it is owed.
–Daniel Burke (2015)
As a man whose head is under water cannot inhale pure air, so a man whose thoughts are plunged into the cares of this world cannot absorb the sensations of that new world.
— Saint Isaac of Syria (Seventh Century)
Do not allow your heavenly spirit to become captive to earthly things.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be attached to anything else.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Holy indifference is not inactivity. It is the furthest possible from it. It is indifference to anything and everything out of God’s will; but it is the highest life and activity to anything and everything in that will.
— François Fénèlon (1651-1715)
