Benedicta Ward Quotes

Evagrius said, 'Cut the desire for many things out of your heart and so prevent your mind being dispersed and your stillness lost.

Daniel said, 'If the body is strong, the soul weakens. If the body weakens, the soul is strong.

A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, "Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die.

Antony said to Poemen, 'Our great work is to lay the blame for our sins upon ourselves before God, and to expect to be tempted to our last breath.