Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection Quotes

“There is nothing more rare and unusual in the world than to see a religious raise himself ever so little above that degree in religion whence by tepidity he had fallen; and it is far easier to find many seculars who are entirely converted to God, after having led an irregular life, than to meet a religious that from a languishing and negligent state, passes to an ardent and zealous way of living. (Ep. 96)”
― Alphonsus Rodriguez, Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection: Volume I of III