Charles Williams : The New Christian Year

  By love all God's chosen have been made perfect; nothing is well pleasing to God without love.

St. Clement: Epistles.

  You see, beloved, how great and wonderful a thing love is, and how unspeakable its perfection.

St. Clement, Epistles.

  He called us when we were not, and willed us from not being to be.

St. Clement: Epistles.

5th Monday after the Epiphany

Faith appears to be the first inclination towards salvation: then follow fear and hope and repentance, which growing up togther with temperance and patience, lead us on to love and knowledge.

St. Clement: Stromata.

2nd Tuesday after the Epiphany

God gives us many things in which He has Himself no part: being Himself self-existent, He gives us a beginning of existence; being Himself exempt from want, He gives us nourishment; Himself always the same, He gives us growth; Himself immortal and exempt from old age, He gives us a happy old age, and a happy death.

St. Clement: Stromata.

You see, beloved, how great and wonderful a thing love is, and how unspeakable its perfection.

St. Clement: Epistles.

By love all God's chosen have been made perfect; nothing is well pleasing to God without love.

St. Clement: Epistles.