QUOTATION: It All Boils Down to Love

You may fast regularly, give alms, and pray without ceasing, but as long as you hate your brother, you will not be numbered among the children of God.

--Venerable Louis de Blois

QUOTATION: God's Mercy

A sinner cannot outrage the Deity more than by despairing of Divine mercy on account of the number and enormity of his crimes; for God's clemency is far greater than the iniquity and guilt of an entire world . . . Of God's mercy never despair.

--Venerable Louis de Blois

QUOTATION: Disturbed Prayer

When through frailty a Christian is disturbed in prayer let him not imagine his entreaties to be worthless; for the benignity of God is such that, provided the petitioner's virtual intention be good, his prayer is not rejected.

--Venerable Louis de Blois

QUOTATION: Divine Providence

Live always in the certainty that whatever happens to you is the result of divine Providence; because nothing hard or laborious falls to your lot without the Lord permitting it.

--Venerable Louis de Blois

QUOTATION: Vain Curiosity

Do not disturb yourself with vain curiosity concerning the affairs of others, nor how they conduct themselves, unless your position makes it your duty to do so.

--Venerable Louis de Blois

QUOTATION: Spiritual Progress

Whoever desires to please God, to make any progress in spiritual life, and at length arrive at perfection, must as a first step detest all heresies and schisms, adhering firmly to the Church Catholic, and subjecting himself humbly to her.

--Louis de Blois (Blosius) , A Short Rule, I