St. Gregory: the necessity of good intentions

Monday, February 7, 2011
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”
    —Matthew 6:22-23 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Many things seem to be good and yet are not, because they be not done with a good mind and intention; and therefore our Saviour saith in the Gospel, “If thy eye has naught, all thy body shall be dark.” For when the intention is wicked, all the work that follows is naught, although it seemed to be never so good.
    ... St. Gregory the Great (540?-604), The Dialogues of Saint Gregory, P. L. Warner, 1911, p. 40 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, purify my motives. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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