Charles Williams : The New Christian Year

20th Thursday after Trinity (November 3rd, 2011)

Then first do we attain to the fullness of God's love as His children, when it is no longer happiness or misery, prosperity of adversity, that draws us to Him or keeps us back from Him.  What we should then experience none can utter; but it would be something far better than when we were burning with the first flame of love, and had great emotion, but less true submission.

Johannes Tauler: Sermons.

His life has been brought into mine, so that I am atoned with Him in His Love.  The will of Christ has entered into humanity again in me, and now my will in me enters into His humanity.

Jakob Boehme: Signatura Rerum.

20th Wednesday after Trinity (November 2nd, 2011)

Love does the work of all other graces without any instrument but its own immediate virtue.  For as the love to sin makes a man sin against all his own reason, and all the discourses of wisdom, and all the advices of his friends, and without temptation, and without opportunity, so does the love of God; it makes a man chaste without the laborious arts of fasting and exterior disciplines, temperate in the midst of feasts, and is active enough to choose it without any intermedial appetites, and reaches at glory through the very heart of grace, without any other arms but those of love.

Jeremy Taylor: Holy Living.

20th Tuesday after Trinity (November 1st, 2011)

Give peace, that is, continue and preserve it; give peace, that is, give us hearts worthy of it, and thankful for it.  In our time, that is, all our time: for there is more besides a fair morning required to make a fair day.

Thomas Fuller: Good Thoughts in Bad Times.

Teach me the art of patience whilst I am well, and give me the use of it when I am sick.

Thomas Fuller: Good Thoughts in Bad Times.