"It is very certain that the love of God supplies for everything, suffices for everything. But when it does not purify from sin, it is not true, or not yet very strong. The first effect of love is to purify. For this reason, we must go on examining sin, its fatal consequences, to awaken horror [...]
"Behold a most important subject for examination. See whether you are perfectly free with regard to all things. Or rather, look upon Our Lord in His Sacrament, and compare your poverty with His. What does He possess? Of what does He make use exteriorly? Neither glory nor majesty nor any of the attributes of His [...]
"If men did for the good God and for their soul what they do to succeed in business affairs or in any other state in which they are, they would soon become saints." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist St. Peter Julian Eymard was a priest and the founder of the Congregation [...]
"Our greatest evil is sloth, negligence, forgetfulness, and discouragement. That shows our little faith, respect, and love. We want what gives us pleasure, and we refuse what contradicts us." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist St. Peter Julian Eymard was a priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament. [...]
"Behold the total gift, behold renunciation. The vow of poverty extends to our whole being. To pause on exterior things, is not to comprehend the mind. Poverty consecrates the whole religious. If we do not give ourselves entirely, we enter not into the virtue of poverty. It is easy to say: 'My God, I give [...]
"Now, we must take Our Lord where He shows Himself to us, and that is in the Blessed Sacrament. He continues the Gospel under our eyes. The Eucharist ought to be our Gospel. It is a living Gospel. Why would you deprive yourselves of the sight of His Person in order to read His word, [...]
"Some there are who wish to serve Our Lord only on condition of being better treated than they were in the world. Oh, how many there are who demand of religion only its advantages, who enter it only to make sure of their bread, to find in it a resource, a commodious shelter! Religious nobodies! [...]
"As Communion is the end here below of all the mysteries of Jesus Christ's life, let it be the end of your life, also. It alone is worthy of being your end, the end in which you will abide in which you will take your rest, for it alone perfectly gives you Jesus Christ, and [...]
"Do you love Him alone? But in what degree? Have you not other affections that thwart the former? Examine whence come your thoughts, whether they are habitually fixed on Our Lord, His love, His adorable Presence. We think on what we love. Where your thought is, thither your heart turns." Source: St. Peter Julian [...]
"Again God's goodness shows itself here. He could have exacted of His creature absolute service without any recompense. But no. He wills that His service Itself should be useful to us and that, in serving Him, we labor far more for ourselves than for Him." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist St. [...]