Quote of the Day – 14 February – St Valentine (176-273) Bishop and Martyr
“Love one another
as I have loved you.”
John 15:12
“But I say to you,
Love your enemies …”
Matthew 5:44
“He gives according to the love He bears us …,
according to the courage He sees in each
and the love each has for His Majesty.
He will see, that whoever loves Him much,
will be able to suffer much for Him;
whoever loves Him little,
will be capable of little.
I myself hold,
that the measure for being able to bear,
a large or small cross, is love …”
St Teresa of Jesus of Avila (1515-1582)
“Take God for your Spouse and Friend
and walk with Him continually
and you will not sin and will learn to love
and the things you must do
will work out prosperously for you.”
“The one who walks in the love of God
seeks neither gain nor reward
but seeks only, with the will,
to lose self and all things, for God
and this loss, the lover judges to be a gain!
Thus it is, as St Paul asserts:
“For me death is gain” [Phil 1:21],
that is, my death to all things and to myself,
for Christ, is my spiritual gain.
Consequently, the soul declares:
“I was found.”
The soul who does not know how to lose himself,
does not find himself but rather, loses himself,
as Our Lord teaches in the Gospel:
“For he who will save his life, shall lose it
and he who will lose his life for My Sake, will find it.”
(Mt 16:25).”
St John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Doctor of the Church
“LOVE
is the only way
to HEAVEN.”
St Joseph Calasanz (1557-1648)
“The measure of love,
is to love without measure.”
St Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Doctor of the Church
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