Grant me, O God, strength and courage to restrain the desires of my heart, that I may be free to possess you, Amen.
Grant me, O God, strength and courage to restrain the desires of my heart, that I may be free to possess you, Amen.
Love is a great thing, greatest of all goods, because it alone renders light every burden and bears equally all that is unequal.
He who is too sure in time of peace, will often show himself to be downcast or fearful in time of war.
Love feels no burden, values no labours, would like to do more than it can do, without excusing itself with impossibility, because it believes that it may and can do all things.
Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing more sublime, nothing more expansive, nothing more joyful, nothing more abundant, nothing more pleasing in Heaven or on earth ; because love is born of God, nor can it rest upon created things, but only in God
He who is in perfect peace suspects no man. But he who is discontented and disturbed is agitated by various suspicions; he neither has rest himself, nor does he permit others to rest.