So that, being rooted and grounded in love, you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth.
Eph 3:13-21
Some bewail and lament the inmates of the prison, some those who have been expelled from their country and transported to the land of exile, others those who have been deprived of their freedom, others those who have been seized and made captives by enemies, others those who have been drowned, or burnt, or buried by the fall of a house, but no one mourns those who are living in wickedness: on the contrary, which is worse than all, they often congratulate them, a practice which is the cause of all manner of evils.
St John Chrysostom
These are the two roads, and both are hard to travel. Wonder, then, at the ignorance and blindness of man, who, having a Road made for him, which causes such delight to those who use It, that every bitterness becomes sweet, and every burden light, yet prefers to walk over the water.
The Dialogue of St Catherine of Siena
Poverty is good and contains within itself all the good things in the world. It is a great domain – I mean that he who cares nothing for the good things of the world has dominion over them all. What do kings and lords matter to me if I have no desire to possess their money, or to please them, if by so doing I should cause the least displeasure to God? And what do their honours mean to me if I have realised that the chief honour of a poor man consists in his being truly poor?
St Teresa of Avila
We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing.
St Clare of Assisi
True peace is a certain mark of predestination.
Father Segneri S.J (17th Century)
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