Wisdom of the Saints about The Sacred Heart (part 4)

“This stream of the four waters flowing from Christ we see in the Church. He is the stream of flowing waters, and He is preached by the four evangelists. Flowing over the whole earth, He sanctifies all who believe in Him. This is what the prophet heralded with the words: ‘Streams flow from His Heart’.” St Hippolytus of Rome (2^nd-3^rd centuries)
 
“Make a sweet dwelling in the side of Christ crucified in order to have a holy knowledge of yourself and a true knowledge of the greatness of His goodness.” St. Catherine of Siena (14^th century, Doctor of the Church)
 
"Take up your abode in the lovable Heart of Jesus, and you will find therein imperturbable peace and the strength to carry out the good desires He gives you. Bring to this divine Heart all your troubles and afflictions, for whatever emanates from the Sacred Heart is sweet: It changes everything into love." St. Margaret Mary (17^th century)
 
"My Jesus, let me live in Your Heart and pour all my bitterness into It where it will be utterly consumed." St. Claude de la Colombiere (17th century)
 
“Abandon yourself in the deep sea of divine love, entering through the door of the most pure Heart of Jesus, in pure faith, without images.  Hide yourself totally in that great Holy of Holies, and there lose yourself completely in the bottomless sea of the infinite Love of God.  Rise to the contemplation of the divine wonders, beauties, and riches of the Sovereign Good; take pleasure in Him; melt into that great fire like a small piece of wax...” St. Paul of the Cross (17^th-18^th centuries)
 
“Oh most Sacred, most loving Heart of Jesus, Thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and Thou beatest for us still.  Thou art the Heart of the Most High made man.  Thy Sacred Heart is the instrument and organ of Thy love.  It did beat for us.  It yearned for us.  It ached for our salvation.  It was on fire through zeal, that the glory of God might be manifested in and by us...In worshipping Thee I worship my Incarnate God, my Emmanuel.” St. John Henry Newman (19^th century)
 
“All my cries of anguish rise to You, my Comforter. In Your adorable Heart I weep.  To Your Heart I confide my sighs, my anguish, my grief to Your grief. My Jesus, sanctify my sufferings by this holy union.” St. Bernadette Soubirous (19^th century)
 
“The human heart needs a tangible love in order to realize something of infinite love, deeper far as it is than this tangible love and surpassing our understanding.   Nothing, indeed, so much attracts our poor hearts as to contemplate Jesus Christ, true God as well as true Man, translating the eternal goodness into human deeds.  When we see Him lavishly scattering around Him inexhaustible treasures of compassion and mercy, we are able to conceive something of the infinity of that ocean of divine kindness whence the Sacred Heart draws these treasures for us.” Bl. Columba Marmion (19^th-20^th centuries)
 
“The docility with which the soul entrusts itself to the care of the Divine Shepherd keeps it from all danger and renders it the object of His heart’s tenderest solicitude’.” Bl. Ildefonso Schuster (19^th-20^th centuries
 
“There was sorrow in His sad complaint during life; ‘You will not come to Me’; but there is tragedy in the last cry: ‘I thirst.’ There was probably no moment during the three hours of redemption in which Our Lord suffered more than this…Taking His life did not mean so much to Him, for He was really laying it down of Himself. But for man to spurn His Love – that was enough to break His Heart…We have not the capacity for love that He has, therefore we can never miss so much when it is denied. But when our tiny little hearts are sometimes denied the love they crave, we do get some faint inkling of what must have gone on in His Own Great Heart…Each human heart can break His Sacred heart all over again; each soul has within itself the potentiality of another crucifixion. No one can love as much as Our Lord; no one therefore can suffer as much.” Ven. Fulton Sheen (19^th-20^th centuries)