Birth: 1090 Death: August 20, 1153
Death is the gate of life..
Love me, love my dog..
The reason for our loving God is God..
Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is….
Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was….
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart..
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!.
"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resem….
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth.
From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again..
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken..
there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self f….
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too..
Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cr….
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters..
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me..
Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the s….
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded..
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing..
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields..
It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the w….