Live your way…
You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
–Henri Nouwen (1932–1996)
Mercy is greater…
Mercy will always be greater than any sin, no one can put a limit on the love of the all-forgiving God. Just by looking at him, just raising our eyes from ourselves and our wounds, we leave an opening for the action of his grace. Jesus performs miracles with our sins, with what we are, with our nothingness, with our wretchedness.
–Pope Francis (1936-
We cannot be free…
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Envy is madness…
It is madness for a Christian to be envious. In Christ we have all received infinitely great blessings.
–Saint John of Kronstadt (1829-1908)
Love is a fire, but…
Love is a fire; but three things can extinguish it: the wind of pride, the water of gluttony and luxury, and the thick smoke of avarice.
–Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231)
When you have committed a fault…
Beginners in the service of God sometimes lose confidence when they fall into any fault. When you feel so unworthy a sentiment rising within you, you must lift your heart to God and consider that all your faults, compared with divine goodness, are less than a bit of tattered thread thrown into a sea of fire. Suppose that the whole horizon, as far as you can see from this mountain, were a sea of fire; if we cast into it a bit of tattered thread, it will disappear in an instant. So, when you have committed a fault, humble yourself before God, and cast your fault into the infinite ocean of [love] and at once it will be effaced from your soul; at the same time all distrust will disappear.
–Saint Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)
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