Charles Williams : The New Christian Year

5th Monday after Easter (April 30th, 2018)

God impeacheth not Caesar, nor God's due Caesar's right . . . In the high and heavenly work of the preservation of all our lives, persons, estates, and goods, in safety, peace, and quietness, in this his so great and divine benefit, he hath associated Caesar to himself.

Lancelot Andrewes: Sermons.

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Fourth Sunday after Easter (April 29th, 2018)

I was still under great temptations sometimes, and my inward sufferings were heavy; but I could find none to open my condition to but the Lord alone, unto whom I cried night and day.  I went back into Nottinghamshire, and there the Lord shewed me that the natures of those things which were hurtful without, were within, in the hearts and minds of wicked men.  I cried to the Lord, saying, "Why should I be thus, seeing I was never addicted to commit those evils?" and the lord answered that it was needful I should have a sense of all conditions, and in this I was the infinite love of God.  I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love which flowed over the ocean of darkness.  In that also I saw the infinite love of God; and I had great openings.

George Fox: Journal.

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4th Saturday after Easter (April 28th, 2018)

God Almighty, Eternal, Righteous, and Merciful, give to us poor sinners to do for thy sake all that we know of thy will, and to will always what pleases thee, so that inwardly purified, enlightened, and kindled by the fire of the Holy Spirit, we may follow in the footprints of thy well-beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen.

St. Francis of Assisi.

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What then is God?  That without which nothing is.  A thing can no more be without him than he can be without himself.

St. Bernard: On Consideration.

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Love is the divine substance; for John says God is Love . . . Thus substantial love gives accidental love.

St. Bernard: On the Song of Songs.

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4th Friday after Easter (April 27th, 2018)

Too little doth he love thee who loves anything with thee which he loves not for thee.

St. Augustine: Confessions.

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It was not by the dialectic that it pleased God to save his people; "for the kingdom of God consisteth in simplicity of faith, not in worldly contention."

St. Ambrose: Of the Faith.

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4th Thursday after Easter (April 26th, 2018)

God must act and the soul must suffer; for him to know and love himself in her, for her to know with his knowledge, love with his love; and since she is far happier in his than hers it follows that her happiness depends upon his work more than on her own.

Eckhart: Sermons and Collations.

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Nothing is due to any one, except on account of something already given him gratuitously by God.

Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica.

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4th Wednesday after Easter (April 25th, 2018)

The nobler things are, the commoner they are.  Love is noble, because it is universal.

Johannes Tauler: Sermons.

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