Regulate the heart before prayer…
It is as necessary to regulate the heart before prayer and meditation as to tune the guitar before playing it.
–Saint Peter of Alcantara (1499-1562)
Prayer is a bath…
[P]rayer is a bath, an open place, a bed of pleasure wherein the soul rests and finds refreshment in God.
–Saint Peter of Alcantara (1499-1562)
The most excellent virtues…
THE MOST EXCELLENT VIRTUES
- Faith is the prime root and foundation of a Christian.
- Hope is a staff to defend us from all tribulations of this present life.
- Charity is the end of all perfection.
- Fear of God is the beginning of true wisdom.
- Humility is the basis and ground work of all virtues.
- Patience is the strongest armour against the fury of our enemies.
- Obedience is the most grateful oblation to God, wherein man offers himself for a sacrifice.
- Discretion is the eye of the soul.
- Fortitude the hand thereof, wherewith it brings all works unto perfection.
- Purity of intention directs all her actions unto God.
–Saint Peter of Alcantara (1499-1562)
Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament…
Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them.
–Saint Peter of Alcantara (1499-1562)
Scruples hinder…
Scruples, too… hinder devotion; for they are like thorns which prick the conscience and diquiet it, and will not allow it to find repose and comfort in God.
— Saint Peter of Alcantara (1499-1562)
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