Daily Virtue Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"God loves, and his love may certainly be called eros, yet it is also totally agape." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, God is Love: Deus Caritas Est, Ignatius Press, 2006.
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Peter Julian Eymard
"Have, then, charity for your brethren. Let your first love be for them. It would be a great misfortune for you to have more charity for people out-doors than for those of the family." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist St. Peter Julian Eymard was a priest and the founder of the [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"In the account of Jacob’s ladder, the Fathers of the Church saw this inseparable connection between ascending and descending love, between eros which seeks God and agape which passes on the gift received, symbolized in various ways." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, God is Love: Deus Caritas Est, Ignatius Press, 2006.
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"Only when a box is empty can it be filled; only when the ego is deflated can God pour in His blessings. Some are already so stuffed with their own ego that it is impossible for love of neighbor or love of God to enter." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"Yet eros and agape – ascending and descending love – can never be completed separated. The more the two, in their different aspects, find a proper unity in the one reality of love, the more the true nature of love in general is realized. Even if Eros is at first mainly covetous and ascending, a [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Faustina
"When we suffer much we have a great chance to show God that we love Him; but when we suffer little, we have less occasion to show God our love; and when we do not suffer at all, our love is then neither great nor pure. By the grace of God, we can attain a [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Peter Julian Eymard
"What, then, are the characteristics of fraternal charity? The same as those of Our Lord's love for us. First, Our Lord loved us for ourselves, and not for Himself. Love that loves others for self, is only egoism. We must, then, love our brethren for their spiritual good, and even for their temporal good according [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"Love is indeed 'ecstasy', not in the sense of a movement of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an ongoing exodus out of the closed inward-looking self towards its liberation through self-giving, and thus towards authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God: 'Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Peter Julian Eymard
" Abide with God that you may learn His kindness. Abide in recollection with yourselves that you may discover your own misery and learn how to despise yourselves. These are the two sources of fraternal charity, and the secret of love for the brethren. Fraternal charity is the well-beloved virtue of Our Lord. It is [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"Love now becomes concern and care for the other. No longer is it self-seeking, a sinking in the intoxication of happiness; instead it seeks the good of the beloved: it becomes renunciation, and it is readily, and even willing for sacrifice." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, God is Love: Deus Caritas Est, Ignatius Press, 2006. [...]