Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and that you behave like true knights in your encounters with the same adversities which they had to conquer, and that breathtaking joy is theirs and your eternal reward for having endured a few years of temporal pain. Every drop of earthly bitterness will be changed into an ocean of heavenly sweetness.
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr. - Henry Suso
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
- Henry Suso
Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this, leaving all else alone. - Henry Suso
Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this, leaving all else alone.
By ignorance the truth is known. - Henry Suso
By ignorance the truth is known.
In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I we… - Henry Suso
In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I we…
After big storms there follow bright days. - Henry Suso
After big storms there follow bright days.
I have often repented of having spoken. I have never repented of silence. - Henry Suso
I have often repented of having spoken. I have never repented of silence.
Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die,… - Henry Suso
Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die,…
Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and that you… - Henry Suso
Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and that you…
Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament - Henry Suso
Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament
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