Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Santa Maria Della Vittoria, Rome
All the paradoxes about the contemplative way are reduced to this one: being without desir...
Saint Bonaventure
If you should wish to know how these things come about , question grace, not instruction; desire, not intellect; the cry of prayer, not purs...
"I did not even know who Christ was, that He was God. I had not the faintest idea that there existed such a thing as the Blessed Sacrament. I thought church...
Boethius 480-525 A.D.
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"So combat vice, dedicate yourself to a virtuous life oriented by ho...
Saint Gregory of Nyssa, 335 - 385 A.D.
The sky was not made in God's image, not the moon, not the sun, not the beauty of the stars, no other things which appe...
Saint Jerome
"Remain firmly attached to the traditional doctrine that you have been taught, so that you can preach according to right doctrine and refute th...