Quote for the Night

[Shin]

'Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow.'

St. Clare of Assisi

[Shin]

'The mole is a blind rat, which always stays in the ground; it eats earth, and hollows it out, but is never satisfied with it: so is the avaricious man or woman.'

St. Philip Neri

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'Rejoice, O Virgin Mary! Rejoice a thousand times!'

St. Louis Marie de Montfort

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'It is necessary for me to meet abnegation and sacrifice in everything. We cannot accomplish any good while we indulge in self-seeking.'

St. Therese of Lisieux

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'A soul filled with thoughts of sensual desire and hatred is unpurified.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

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'A man who is carried away by his thoughts is blinded by them; and while he can see the actual working of sin, he cannot see its causes.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'To cling always to God and to the things of God - this must be our major effort, this must be the road that the heart follows unswervingly.'

St. John Cassian

[Shin]

'Leave your soul free to take her flight to the Sovereign Good as God shall guide her.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'Dost thou know why I give thee My graces in such abundance? To make of thee a sanctuary in which the fire of My love may continually burn. Thy heart is like a sacred altar which nothing sullied may touch; I have chosen it as an altar of holocausts for My Eternal Father.'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'We who have received baptism offer good works, not by way of repayment, but to preserve the purity given to us.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'A man deadened by the passions is impervious to advice and will not accept any spiritual correction.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

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'Blessed the one who always keeps the memory of God in himself, he will be wholly like an Angel from heaven upon earth, ministering to the Lord with fear and love.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

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'When a sinful soul does not accept the afflictions that come to it, the angels say: "We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed" (Jer. 51:9)'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'The virtues possess a fund of goodness from which the holy intellect brings forth blessings.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'The soul's disease is an evil disposition while its death is sin put into action.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

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'Arguments and human reasoning will never teach us as much as humble recourse to God.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola