Character Quote by James K.A. Smith

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

— Alphonsus Liguori

Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love…

— Brother Lawrence

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

— Adela Florence Nicolson

“Descartes argued “I think, therefore I am,” and people after Freud translated that into the modern vernacular by saying, “I feel, therefore I am…

— David F. Wells

Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we…

— Timothy Keller

Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“When people walk in honesty about their fears, shortcomings, and needs—not in thoughtless disobedience but in grace-based freedom and forgiveness—they reveal a deep understanding…

— Matt Chandler

The Lord has given me to understand the value of at once confessing one's sins after their commission. By so doing we are always…

— Peter Julian Eymard

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Perform your actions without desires, without attachment and without seeking the fruit of your actions, as a sacrificial offering to God, accepting Him as…

— Senoraroy

By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in…

— Frederick William Robertson

“Deep desire in true humility leads to the pain of feeling your deepest wounds, and the loss of control, security and to dependence solely…

— Padma Aon Prakasha