Let everyone understand that real love of God does not consist in tear-shedding, nor in that sweetness and tenderness for which usually we long, just because they console us, but in serving God in justice, fortitude of soul and humility.
—Saint Teresa of Avila

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Knowledge, morality, art, all must become religious, not by external constraint but freely and from within. . . . No ecclesiastical hierarchy can now rule and regulate society and the life of the state, no clericalism is able to make use of external force. Nevertheless I cannot re-create the state and a decayed society otherwise than in the name of religious principles. . . . Not for anything in the world would I be free from God; I wish to be free in God and for God. . . . God must be again the centre of our whole life -- our thought, our feeling, our only dream, our only desire, our only hope.


--Nikolai Berdyaev in "The End of Our Time"




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In giving us His Son, His only Word, He spoke everything to us at once in this sole Word -- and He has no more to say ... because what he spoke before to the prophets in parts, he has now spoken all at once by giving us the All Who is His Son.



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Almighty and ever-living God,
you taught us through the preaching of Saint Vincent
to run the path to our heavenly home
in expectation of the Saviour.
With the help of his prayers
may we be fervent in labour and in love
and seek no lasting city here below,
but an eternal dwelling place to come.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.






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