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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2026, 01:59:00 PM »
"Love can supply for length of years. Jesus, because He is Eternal, regards not the time but only the love."
— Thoughts of the Little Flower (St. Thérèse of Lisieux), on the love of God
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #11 on: March 18, 2026, 11:31:34 AM »
“In a word, St. Bernardine asserts, that Mary, while she lived on earth, was continually loving God. And he adds further, that she never did anything that she did not know was pleasing to God; and that she loved him as much as she knew he ought to be loved.” 

— St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Glories of Mary, on Mary's love for God
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2026, 12:46:18 PM »
When I behold my Saviour on the Mount of Olives, His Soul “sorrowful even unto death,” I am forced to cry out, “What but love itself in its boundless compassion could so draw our misery into Thy All-powerful Heart?” And how can the devout mind contemplate the Sorrows of the Divine Lover of souls without a loving holy grief? 

— Chapter V, The Sympathy and Complacent Love found in the Passion of our Lord, Treatise on the Love of God, St. Francis de Sales
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2026, 08:27:37 AM »
Then, fearing that she had judged a person harshly for something which she had seen her do, she said to God: "Lord, Thou hast placed soldiers to guard the entrance of my heart; but, alas! I fear they have withdrawn, since I have judged my neighbour so harshly."

"How can you complain that they have withdrawn," replied our Lord, "when at this moment you experience their assistance? — for it is a sign that one desires to be united to Me when they cannot take pleasure in what displeases Me."

— Life and Revelations of St. Gertrude the Great, a spiritual cloister in Our Lord's humanity
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2026, 11:53:08 AM »
“Cast your heart gently, not violently, into the wounds of our Saviour; have an unlimited confidence in His mercy and goodness.” — St. Francis de Sales, Maxims and Counsels of the saint for everyday of the year, 1884
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