
“We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.”
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.”
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?”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.”
Mark VII: 1–13, p. 136
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Mark (1857)
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)
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.
Interview with "El País", 2009.