Quotes

When I was cleaning out my hoard of books, I ran across a journal I had written a bunch of quotes in. Here they are:

We should love God because He is God, and the measure of our love should be to love Him without measure. ~ St. Bernard

Not without reward is God loved, although He should be loved without thought of reward. ~ St. Bernard

The heart has reasons that reason does not know. ~ Blaise Pascal

If we love God and are faithful to Him, we shall be at peace, and this peace will endure. ~ St. Madeline Sophie Barat

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself against it. ~ St. Vincent de Paul

The air which we breathe, the bread which we eat, the heart which throbs in our bosoms, are not more necessary for man that he may live as a human being, than is prayer for the Christian that he my live as a Christian. ~ St. John Eudes

Salvation is shown to faith, it is prepared for hope, but it is given only to charity. Faith points out the way to the land of promise as a pillar of fire, hope feeds us with its manna of sweetness, but charity actually introduces us into the promised land. ~ St. Francis de Sales

It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity" (1 John 4:8). ~ St. Albert the Great

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist. ~ St. Gregory the Great

Charity means pardoning that which is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means believing when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And Faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all. ~ G.K. Chesterton

What is now called free thought is valued, not because it is free thought, but because it is freedom from thought. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws us into the Soul of the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven. ~ St. Ephraem

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over. ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori

He loves, He hopes, He waits. If He came down on our altars on certain days only, some sinner, on being moved to repentence, might have to look for Him, and not finding Him, might have to wait. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep him waiting one instant. ~ St. Peter Julian Eymard

What no law nor any human strength could accomplish was done by Christ in His moment of greatest weakness - the Salvation of the World. ~ Marie L. Bocko