“We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Quaestiones de veritate disputatae q 24, art. 15, ad 2
Rabbi Zolman Schacter-Shalomi, Professor Emeritus, Temple University
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“We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Quaestiones de veritate disputatae q 24, art. 15, ad 2
“If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?”
David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
“It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.”
J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop
Mark VII: 1–13, p. 136
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Mark (1857)
Eusebio Ramos Morales (1952) Puerto Rican bishop
Source: Puerto Rican Catholics Urged to Open Hearts to Others at Cathedral Mass https://www.cny.org/stories/puerto-rican-catholics-urged-to-open-hearts-to-others-at-cathedral-mass,4099 (1 December 2010)
Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint
First Mansions, Ch. 2 : The Human Soul, as translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1911), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman
Interior Castle (1577)
Context: We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
José Saramago (1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
Interview with "El País", 2009.