Have FAITH and HOPE in God's will leads us to please His GREATEST COMMANDMENT i.e. " Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and 'Love your neighbour as you love yourself.'" "Do this and you will live," and "Receive eternal life." - Luke 10:25-28 - Mark 12:28-34 - Matthew 22:34-40 -

Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbour. As our Lord explained; "It is on love/charity that all the Law and the Prophets depend." - Saint Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-67) -

Unless we love God, we can scarcely persevere in grace.

He who does not acquire the love of God will scarcely persevere in the grace of God, for it is very difficult to renounce sin merely through fear of chastisement. - Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787) -

What does it avail to know that there is a God, which thou not only believest by Faith, but also knowest by reason; what does it avail that thou knowest Him if thou think little of Him? - Saint Thomas More (1478-1535) -

Salvation is shown to faith, it is prepared for hope, but it is given only to love/charity. Faith points out the way to the land of promise as a pillar of fire; hope feeds us with its manna of sweetness, but love/charity actually introduces us into the Promised Land. - Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622) -

It is by the path of love, which is love/charity, that God draws near to people, and people to God. But where love/charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess love/charity, we possess God, for God is Love/Charity. - Saint Albert the Great (d. 1280) -

To habour no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have love/charity for him. It is possible, without any love/charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love. - Saint Maximus the Confessor (d. 622) -

All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in the sight of God, if we have not that universal love/charity for everyone - for the good, and for the bad, for the poor and for the rich, and for all those who do us harm as much as for those who do us good. - Saint John Mary Vianney (1786-1859) -

The proof of love is in the works,
Where love exists, it works great things,
But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist. - Saint Gregory the Great (d. 604) -

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -