|
Theology of the Heart: Wisdom of the heart- sayings |
St. Irenaeus
"The glory of God is the human person
fully alive."
St. Ambrose
"May each one of us glorify the Lord with the
soul of Mary and rejoice in God with the spirit of Mary"
"It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are
Peter, and upon this rock I will build my
Church.' Where Peter is, there is the Church.
And where the Church, no death is there, but
life eternal."
St. Augustine
“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the
beauty of the soul.”
St. Alphonsus Ligouri
"Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with
God's."
"So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such
is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and
relaxes not her efforts in our behalf."
Mother Teresa
"There is a terrible hunger for love. We
all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must
have the courage to recognize it".
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.
Let us begin."
St. Therese of Lisieux
"The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a
mother."
"I understood that love comprised all vocations, that love was
everything, that it embraced all times and places,
in a word, that it was eternal! ...O Jesus, my Love ... my vocation,
at last I have found it, my vocation is love! ...
In the heart of the Church, my Mother, I shall be Love."
"Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing."
"Let us love, since
that is all our hearts were made for."
"For me to love
you, Jesus, as you love me, I would have to borrow your own love and
then only would I be at rest."
St. Faustina Kowalska
"I will
spend this Advent in accordance with the directions of the Mother of
God: in meekness and humility."
"I saw the abyss of my
misery; whatever there is of good in me is
Yours, O Lord. But because I am so small and
wretched, I have a right to count on Your
boundless mercy."
St. Maximilian Kolbe
"For flowers of of virtue to
blossom in our soul, they must be heated by the warmth of the Immaculata."
St. Francis of Assisi
"Everything in man should halt in
awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the
Son of the living God is
there on the altar."
"Man should tremble, the world should vibrate,
all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the
altar in the hands of the priest."
Jesus to St.
Margaret Mary
"My love reigns in suffering, it triumphs in
humility and enjoys itself in unity."
St. Jane de
Chantal
"Cordial love of the neighbor does not consist in feelings. This
love flows not from a heart of flesh but from the heart of our
will."
St. Claude de la Colombiere
"May the Heart of Jesus Christ be our school! Let us make our
abode there. Let us study its movements and attempt to conform ours
to them. Yes, O Divine Jesus, I want to live there."
St. Angela of Foligno
"My soul, if
you wish to penetrate the depths of the Mystery of the Eucharist,
your gaze must be illumined by Love!"
St. Margaret Mary
"I need nothing but
God, and to lose myself in the heart of Jesus."
St. Frances de Sales
"Nothing is so strong as real gentleness,
nothing so gentle as real strength"
St. Thomas Aquinas
"The things that we love tell us what we are."
St. John of the Cross
Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ does
not seek the glory of Christ.
St. Teresa of Avila
"The
Lord...rewards great services with trials, and
there can be no better reward, for out of trials
springs love for God."
This page is the work of the Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and
Mary
