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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #30 on: April 06, 2026, 08:01:01 PM »
Thoughts of the Servant of God, Thérèse of the Child Jesus, 1915 (on the love of God)

A Sister was speaking to her of the happiness of Heaven: Thérèse interrupted, saying:

"It is not that which attracts me. . ."

"What is it then?"

"Oh! it is Love! To love, to be beloved, and to come back to earth to make Love loved."


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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #31 on: April 07, 2026, 01:02:48 PM »
Had I been rich I never could have borne to see a poor person hungry without giving him to eat. It is the same in my spiritual life: knowing there are souls on the point of falling into Hell, I give them my treasures according as I earn anything, and I have never yet found a moment to say: “Now I am going to work for myself."

— Thoughts of the Servant of God, Thérèse of the Child Jesus, 1915 (on love of neighbour)
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #32 on: April 08, 2026, 06:36:41 PM »
Do you see, my children, except God, nothing is solid — nothing, nothing! If it is life, it passes away; if it is fortune, it crumbles away; if it is health, it is destroyed; if it is reputation, it is attacked. We are scattered like the wind. . . . Every thing is passing away full speed, every thing is going to ruin, O God! O God! how much those are to be pitied, then, who set their hearts on all these things!

— St. Jean Marie Vianney, Catechism on the Love of God, from The Spirit of the Curé of Ars, translated by a priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, 1865
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #33 on: Yesterday at 10:17:12 PM »
“To love the good God is not only to feel from time to time some emotions of tenderness towards God; this sensible devotion is not always in our own power. To love the good God is not to be faithful in fulfilling part of our duties and to neglect the rest. The good God will have no division: “Thou shall love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength,” This shows the strength of the commandment to love God. To love God with our whole heart is to prefer Him to every thing, so as to be ready to lose all our possessions, our honour, our life, rather than offend this good Master. To love God with our whole heart is to love nothing that is incompatible with the love of God; it is to love nothing that can share our heart with the good God; it is to renounce all our passions, all our ill-regulated desires. Is it thus, my children, that we love the good God ? . . .” 

— St. Jean Marie Vianney, Exhortation on the love of God, from The Spirit of the Curé of Ars, translated by a priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, 1865
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #34 on: Today at 08:36:15 PM »
“As it would be impossible for any one to have his foot pierced through without his heart sympathising in its sufferings, so My paternal goodness cannot fail to look with eyes of mercy on those who, while they groan under their own in firmities and feel their need of pardon, are nevertheless moved by a holy charity to pray for the welfare of their neighbour."

— Our Lord to St. Gertrude the Great, Life and Revelations of St. Gertrude, Chapter LXI of the effect of prayers for others
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