Quote/s of the Day –29 May – Pentecost Monday
“These Gifts are not only inseparable from charity
but they are, the principal virtues,
properties and qualities of charity.
WISDOM
is nothing else, than the love
which relishes, tastes and experiences,
how sweet and gentle God is.
UNDERSTANDING
is nothing else, than love attentive to consider
and penetrate the beauty of the truths of faith.
KNOWLEDGE
is simply the same love
keeping us attentive to know ourselves
and creatures, to obtain a more perfect knowledge
of the service we owe to God.
COUNSEL
is also love, as it renders us careful,
attentive and skilled
in choosing the means proper
to serve God in a holy manner.
FORTITUDE
is love which encourages and animates the heart,
so as to carry out, that which Counsel
has determined must be done.
PIETY
is the love which sweetens labour
and makes us, with good heart,
gratitude and filial affection,
do works that please God our Father.
FEAR
is simply love as it causes us to fly
and shun what is displeasing to God’s majesty.”
(Treatise on the Love of God, Book 11, Chapter 15)
St Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Doctor of the Church
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