Love

[Patricia]

God does not command us to live in hair shirts and chains, or to chastise our flesh with scourges, but to love Him above all things and our neighbor as ourselves.

-- Saint Charles of Sezze

[Jacki]

But, above all, ever keep before your eyes the incomparable example of Our Saviour's love for us. Why did He love us with so much tenderness, devotion, and generosity, if not to encourage us by His example, and oblige us by His benefits faithfully to fulfill the precept which He has imposed upon us? "A new commandment I give unto you," were His parting words to His Apostles on the night before He suffered; "that you love one another, as I have loved you." (Jn. 13:34).

--Louis of Granada

[Brigid]

God does not command us to live in hair shirts and chains, or to chastise our flesh with scourges, but to love Him above all things and our neighbor as ourselves.

-- Saint Charles of Sezze

This quote is one that I wish I'd known about. It's so clear and simple.

[Brigid]

Charity gave me the key to my vocation. I realized that love includes all vocations, is in all things, and because it is eternal, embraces every time and place.
St. Therese

But before all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8

Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John 4:7

[Bailey2]

thank you!

Please keep these coming periodically.  They are strength for my soul!