Something for Sunday Morning
"Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love,
it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor."
St. Aelred of Rievaulx
Religion
Something for Sunday Morning
"Each person has a specific divine vocation. Every life that is lived without
reference to the divine plan is wasted."
Francis Fernandez
Something for Sunday Morning
"No one should be so active as not to seek the contemplation of God."
St. Augustine
Something for Sunday Morning
"The Bible is a stream wherein the elephant may swim and the lamb may wade."
St. Gregory the Great
Something for Sunday Morning
"Our friends and acquaintances should find us increasingly welcome and open to
them. We should become better and better able to make life pleasant for others.
At times this will require sacrifice and mortification if we are to overcome
moodiness and tiredness."
Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God.
Something for Sunday Morning
"Modesty is praised in humans because it is not a matter of nature, but of
will."
Lactantius
Something for Sunday Morning
"As much as you watch over your mind carelessly, by so much you will become
distant from Jesus."
Hesychius of Jerusalem
Something for Sunday Morning
"Each person is like that which he loves."
St. Augustine
Something for Sunday Morning
"Truth is the property of God, before whom I wish to be entirely blameless."
Synesius of Cyrene
Something for Sunday Morning
"It is absurd and disgraceful for one to live magnificently and luxuriously when
so many go hungry."
St. Clement of Alexandria
(And lest you think Clement was a kill-joy early Socialist, he was one of the
first thinkers to say that Jesus's harsh instructions to the