“Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes.” IfsLoveFeelsDoeEyeChristianSufferingLordLove YouAnd LoveSaintHumbleSweetnessHis LoveOur LordCatholic Saint Author:Pio of Pietrelcina
“All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.” WorldJesusChristLordThis WorldFlowerJesus ChristHoneySweetnessOur LordVinegar Author:Ignatius of Loyola
“The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life” KnowsMenSoulHomeBodySpiritualUnderstandingMemoriesSinLordEternalAffectionVicesFlightGod LoveMeritDemonGood LifeSacramentsSweetnessEverlastingIncentivesKnowing GodEnlighteningEternal Life Author:Thomas Aquinas
“If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.” IfsShouldWould BeSimpleLordOur LivesSimplicitySunshineSweetnessOur Love Book:Hymns Selected from Frederick William Faber Source: Hymns Selected from Frederick William Faber
“As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communicated by way of teaching if we ourselves are not able to penetrate into the goodness of the Lord by our own experience.” IfsWayInspirationalAbleChristianReligiousLordImpossibleTeachingGoodnessOrthodoxHoneySweetnessPenetrateGoodness Of God Author:Saint Basil
“Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love our enemies in such way that we pity their souls as if they were our own children.” IfsKnowsWayInspirationalChildrenSoulChristianSpiritReligiousLordEnemyTeachHolyPityHoly SpiritOrthodoxSweetness Author:Silouan the Athonite