Knowing the Love of God Quotes

“Talent by itself does nothing but make a bit of noise.”
― Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Knowing the Love of God

“We should note that mortification prepares for mental prayer, and the latter, in its turn, facilitates mortification. Therefore, prayer and mortification influence one another. Mortification and patience prepare for prayer through the purification and detachment they produce in us. They enable the person to take flight toward God, and this flight is prayer itself.”
― Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Knowing the Love of God

“In the present, in the very instant in which it is committed, venial sin deprives the soul of a precious grace. In that instant, grace was offered us to make progress in perfection, to be charitable, fervent, and industrious. If we had corresponded, our merit would have increased and for all eternity we would have contemplated God more intensely face to face. We would have loved Him more. Now this grace has been lost by our neglect, our laziness, and our limited charity.

You will say, "But I can find the moment, the occasion to gain back the good that I lost." On the contrary, the answer is "no." You will not be able to revcver the quarter hour you wasted. Not even God, with all His power, would be able to restore it. This grace, a thousand times more precious than the universe, has been lost forever.”
― Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Knowing the Love of God

“Hello, in regard to St. Catherine of Genoa, says: “In the life of the saints, and especially in the life of the contemplative saints, there is a succession of incomprehensible steps: they hesitate, they vacillate, they move ahead, they turn back, they change their paths. One has the impression that they are wasting time. It seems that the mysterious ways through which they are led never finish. God teaches them humility and makes them understand their impotence and nothingness” (Hello, Physiognomy of the Saints, p. 310).”
― Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Knowing the Love of God