"I have said that it is not necessary to meditate much in order to arrive at affection. Here, however, we must guard against sloth. The mind is slothful regarding the things of grace. It must not be allowed to pass too easily over the reflection. It would willingly act like the tribune Felix, who trembled [...]
"See in Jesus sacramental the virtues you ought to practise. Appropriate them to yourselves and complete them in yourselves. Yes, the Eucharistic virtues are incomplete in this sense, that Jesus can no longer perform their meritorious acts, and that He takes but their state. Thus, His Body can no longer give to the virtue of [...]
"How admirable is that obedience of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament! It is unattended by glory, its perfection is not seen. It is almost always without honor. Who in the world reflects on it, even the Christian even the pious soul? It is humiliated, since He obeys even the sacrilegious, the apostate, the soul [...]
"Do not obey your Superiors because they are good, or pious, or learned. That would be to obey the creature, a natural obedience worthless for heaven. Never obey through human fear of the person or of the reprimand. That would be to obey as a beast deprived of reason That would be humiliating obedience worthy [...]
"You feel nothing? Confess in your heart your misery, your paralysis, your impotence, and even your sins. God will receive this confession of the humbled heart. It will take the place of the sweetest and most exalted affections. It is He Himself who sends that impotence in order to detach you from reflections to which, [...]
"You will give pleasure to Our Lord by speaking of Himself, by entering a little into His interests. You will touch His Heart, like the leper who alone of the ten returned to thank for his cure. Jesus praised him for having rendered glory to God. That poor leper is an example of positive love [...]
"Let your love be your science of adoration. When you go to adore, do not begin with books, think for yourselves. Ask the Divine Master to instruct you. Be certain that an Adoration made by your own weakness, with all your miseries, is of more value than all you can borrow from books, because it [...]
"When people visit a house, they ask to see the master, and not the domestics. It they make a mistake and salute the servant, ought she not to say: 'You mistake. I am nobody here. I shall call my master'? In the same way you will be no longer anything, you will receive nothing, you [...]
"Ah! if people thought seriously that the confession they are about to make, or are making at that very moment, may decide their eternity, that it may be the last absolution they shall receive, the last confession before death, they would make it better!" Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist St. Peter [...]
"You should love nothing but in the Eucharist and on account of its relations to the Eucharist. Jesus Eucharistic ought to be your final love in all things. You ought to love only on account of Him." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist St. Peter Julian Eymard was a priest and the [...]