God is always trying…
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
You can possess riches…
There is a difference between possessing poison and being poisoned. Pharmacists keep almost every kind of poison in stock for use on various occasions, yet they are not themselves poisoned because it is merely in their shops, not in their bodies. So, too, you can possess riches without being poisoned by them if you keep them in your home, purse or wallet, but not in your heart.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Lose myself in Jesus…
I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of Jesus.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690)
Do not refuse anything…
Do not refuse anything you possess, even though you may need it.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
How to die in all…
Whoever knows how to die in all will have life in all.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
The soul pleasing to God…
Then the soul, so divested of its every wish and clothed with the will of God, is very pleasing to God. Like an unbridled horse, it runs most swiftly from grace to grace, from virtue to virtue; for it has no bridle that holds or prevents it from running, since it has severed from itself every inordinate appetite and impulse of its self-will, which are bands and bridles that do not allow the souls of spiritual men to run.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
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