Love begins with…
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
God is in every person…
God made everything that is made, and God loves everything that he made. The person who loves everything and everyone God made, loves God because God is in every person. God is in all things. The person who loves everything loves as God loves.
— Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
God did not…
God did not seek sacrifices and holocausts, but faith, and obedience, and righteousness, for the sake of their salvation. As God said, teaching his will through Hosea the prophet, “What I want is love, not sacrifice; knowledge of God, not holocausts.” Our Lord taught the same, saying “If you had understood the meaning of the words: What I want is mercy, not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the blameless.”
— Saint Irenaeus (late 2nd Century)
We find rest…
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Love overcomes and delights…
Love overcomes, love delights, those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice.
— Saint Bernadette (1844-1879)
Our self-surrender…
Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
— Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
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