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Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
There's courage involved if you want to become truth.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Without cause God gave us Being; without cause, give it back again.
Laughter |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
You are not one; you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.
Saint Anthony of Padua or Anthony of Lisbon, born Fernando Martins de Bulhões NULL
The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.
Contemplation | Heart | Mercy | Providence | Quiet | Contemplation |
Saint Bonaventure, born John of Fidanza Bonaventure
Three things are necessary to everyone regardless of status, sex, or age, i.e., truth of faith which brings understanding; love of Christ which brings compassion; endurance of hope which brings perseverance. No adult is in state of salvation unless he has faithful understanding in his mind, loving compassion in his heart, and enduring perseverance in his actions.
Business | Deceit | Evil | God | People | Public | Business | God |
O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we will not fall through weariness during our pilgrimage in this life, but will be fortified by You, celestial nourishment.
Abundance | Eternal | Faith | Knowledge | Light | Self-love | Soul |
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.
Saint John of the Cross, born Juan de Yepes Álvarez NULL
You should strive in your prayer for a pure conscience, a will that is wholly with God, and a mind truly set upon Him.
Attention | Awareness | Desire | Experience | Faith | Father | God | Love | Order | Possessions | Reflection | Regard | Soul | Understanding | Wants | Will | God | Awareness | Understand |
Saint Isaac of Nineveh, also Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Qatar and Isaac Syrus NULL
The Lord's Day is a mystery of the knowledge of the truth that is not received by flesh and blood, and it transcends speculations. In this age there is no eighth day, nor is there a true Sabbath. For he who said that `God rested on the seventh day,' signified the rest [of our nature] from the course of this life, since the grave is also of a bodily nature and belongs to this world. Six days are accomplished in the husbandry of life by means of keeping the commandments; the seventh is spent entirely in the grave; and the eighth is the departure from it.
Will |