Discipleship, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Fight the good fight until you reach the end, clinging fast to those qualities that will assure your passage to love’s goal. I mean: love of humankind, brotherly and sisterly love, hospitality, love of the poor, compassion, mercy, humility, meekness, gentleness, patience, freedom from anger, long-suffering, perseverance, kindness, forbearance, goodwill and peace towards all. Out of these and through these the grace of love is fashioned, which leads one to God who deifies the human being that He Himself fashioned.
–Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)
Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Perseverance is the most desirable gift we can hope for in this life, and the one which…we cannot have but from the hand of God, who alone can assure him that stands, and help him up that falls.Therefore we must incessantly demand it, making use of the means which Our Savior has taught us to the obtaining of it: prayer, fasting, alms-deeds, frequenting the sacraments, intercourse with the good, the hearing and reading of holy words.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Page: Quotes, Prayer (answered), Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Let us persevere in prayer at all times. For if our Lord seems not to hear us, it is not because He wants to refuse us. Rather, His purpose is to compel us to cry out louder or and to make us more conscious of the greatness of His mercy.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Page: Quotes, Prayer (what), Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Prayer, the heart-to-heart, must never end.
–Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880–1906)
Page: Quotes, Prayer (problems), Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Let the soul be aware that, in order to pray and persevere in prayer, one must arm oneself with patience and cope bravely with exterior and interior difficulties. The interior difficulties are discouragement, dryness, heaviness of spirit and temptations. The exterior difficulties are human respect and time; one must create time set apart for prayer.
–Saint Faustina (1905-1938)
