“... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God.… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“I hope that what you give me comes not from your surplus but it is the fruit of a sacrifice made for… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more.… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in… — James Finley Copy Share Image
“Now you’re wet. You’re so wet you’re leaking down your ass. You’re soaking my pillow. I don’t think I’m ever washing it.… — Susan Stoker Copy Share Image
Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“[T]here was a woman who had set her heart intensely on a kind of transitory love called flirtation, which is a poison… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
“Mike Romano slipped into the confessional. The screen behind the lattice grill slid open. “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.” “For… — Galen Watson Copy Share Image
Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law;… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“The aspiring child is often checked by the dull disciple who has learned his lessons so imperfectly that he has never got… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The Devil is present everywhere that evil things happen within the normal laws of nature. In anyone who says: I don’t accept… — Matt Baglio Copy Share Image
“Since the days after car seats and booster seats I have harped and drilled and grilled my son about always wearing his… — Michelle Kunz Copy Share Image
“We believers have a main job: to preach the gospel to every person with the full expectation that many will hear the… — Patrick Davis Copy Share Image
“If the outer mind hungers for status, money, and applause, the inner mind hungers for harmony and connection—those moments when self-consciousness fades… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
In materiality we find some advance faster, some grow stronger, some become weaklings. Until there is redemption through the acceptance of the… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
“The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“ROM5.3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; ROM5.4 And patience, experience; and experience,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
May you know the love of God, more and more each day and know how much He values you in every little… — M S Lowndes Copy Share Image
Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion,… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“The only love you have to prove in life is your love of God and helping others. Anyone that can't see that… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Yes, for the love of God young women, come along – learn your limits. Or, rather, know society’s limits. How dare you… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“The heart of Christ, the great Head of all the saints, is more full of love than the heart of any saint… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
If such love obtained in the world today as the Lord intended that it should, love of God and love of fellow… — George F. Richards Copy Share Image
We are a church of sinners but we must not be afraid of holiness. Do not be afraid to aim for holiness… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In community we work out our connectedness to God, to one another and to ourselves...In human relationships I learn that theory is… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the… — Barbour Publishing Copy Share Image
To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“That the most excellent method he had found of going to GOD, was that of doing our common business without any view… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love.… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
![“[T]here was a woman who had set her heart intensely on a kind of transitory love called flirtation, which is a poison to spiritual happiness. He said to her that if she wished to lead a calm spiritual existence, she would have to give this up and take eternal Wisdom as her beloved in place of her…” quote by Henry Suso](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4a5/henry-suso-31341_foolish-people_t-here-was-a-woman-who-had-set-her-heart_225604.png)
![“That the most excellent method he had found of going to GOD, was that of doing our common business without any view of pleasing men, [Gal. i. 10; Eph. vi. 5, 6.] and (as far as we are capable) purely for the love of GOD.” quote by Brother Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/196/brother-lawrence-4215_business_that-the-most-excellent-method-he-had-fo_2376153.png)
