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- ...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor enduring unless they…
- ...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not be required were…
- Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare its tools. For…
- Perfection... is clearly not achieved simply by being naked, by the lack of wealth or by the rejection of honors, unless there is also that…
- When we say 'hallowed be Your name' to God what we are really saying is 'Father, make us such as deserve knowledge and understanding of…
- In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock to you. For,…
- True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly shown by the…
- God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His saints in the…
- ... when death has been brought upon a saint, we ought not to think that an evil has happened to him but a thing indifferent;…
- ... a Christian is quite certain to fall into the same sins which he condemns in another with merciless and inhuman severity, for 'a stern…
- ... there is clearly expressed for us? what it is we must attribute either to free will or to the decision and daily assistance of…
- True knowledge is found only among those genuinely worshiping God.
- If you want to correct your brother when he is doing wrong? you must keep yourself calm; otherwise you yourself may catch the sickness you…
- Let everybody know this. He shall be assigned to the place and to the service to which he gave and devoted himself in this life…
- We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long as he dwells…
- The apostles were very sure that everything of theirs which had to do with salvation was a gift to them from God. 'Increase our faith'…
- Men seized of the urge to have a knowledge of God and to be pure in mind devote all their gathered energies to this one…
- The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this means first of…
- When the soul is solidly rooted in... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking thrust of the…
- It is not our free will but 'it is the Lord who sets the captive free' (Ps. 145:7). It is not our own virtue but…
- No just man suffices unto himself for the winning of justification. The divine mercy must always hold out a hand to his footsteps as they…
- ...we know that God arranges the opportunities for salvation in different ways. Our situation is that we respond eagerly or in a laggardly manner to…
- ...when we abandon visible riches... it is strange goods and not our own that we are leaving. And this is so even if we boast…
- ...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be…
- [God] arranged that the boy Samuel should be chosen but instead of teaching him directly He had him, turn once or twice to an old…
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- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. — Stephen Baldwin
- The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian… — Hans Urs von Balthasar