Angela Of Foligno Quotes

#1. There is neither father, nor mother, nor son, nor any other person whatsoever who can embrace the object beloved with so great a love as that wherewith God embraceth the soul.

Angela Of Foligno

#2. This Sacrament really contains You, O my God, You whom the Angels adore, in whose presence the Spirits and mighty Powers tremble. Oh! if we could only see You clearly as they do, with what reverence would we approach this Sacrament, with what humility would we receive You.

Angela Of Foligno

#3. Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Nevertheless, man can stammer something about it.

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#4. Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.

Angela Of Foligno

#5. By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.

Angela Of Foligno

#6. If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ's love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.

Angela Of Foligno

#7. Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.

Angela Of Foligno

#8. O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not forget you in life or in death, but who willed to give Himself wholly to you, and to unite you to Himself forever?

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#9. So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.

Angela Of Foligno

#10. Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.

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#11. This whole world is full of God!

Angela Of Foligno

#12. Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.

Angela Of Foligno