Charles Williams : The New Christian Year

  The true Temple has veil within veil, and one is rent for the ingress of God every time the Soul dies upon the cross, that is, resists interior temptations even to despair.  'Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints.'

Coventry Patmore: The Rod, the Root, and the Flower.

  Men oft see God
  But never know 'tis He till He has passed.

Coventry Patmore: The Rod, the Root, and the Flower.

  When our Lord died, all creation, which held its life from him, necessarily felt the pangs of death also.

Coventry Patmore: Life.

  The son gave himself for man; the Father gave his Beloved for him.

Coventry Patmore: Life.

  God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of his own magnificence than of our asking that we do not know his boons to be those for which we besought him.

Coventry Patmore: Life.

  It becomes a fact of experience to those who truly live that not only must we give up all in order to obtain all, but that we must do so before we attain to any assurance that such would be our reward.  Where, otherwise, would be the sacrifice?

Coventry Patmore: The Rod, the Root, and the Flower.

  The power of the soul for good is in proportion to the strength of its passions.  Sanctity is not the negation of passion but its order. . . . Hence great saints have often been great sinners.

Coventry Patmore: The Rod, the Root, and the Flower.

  The Soul before the Judgement-Seat of Hell.  'Answerest thou nothing?' . . . But she said never a word.  Her Divinity so hid himself that, but for her adamantine faith, she would have taken part with her accusers against herself.

Coventry Patmore: The Rod, The Root, and the Flower.

  Holy indignation is proof that we should do the same thing ourselves, and easy tears are a certain sign of a hard heart.

Coventry Patmore: Life.

  Direct teaching cannot go much beyond pointing out the conditions of perception, and the direction in which it is to be looked for.

Coventry Patmore: The Rod, The Root, and the Flower.