Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'Our actions disclose what goes on within us, just as its fruit makes known a tree otherwise unknown to us.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'A sinner cannot escape retribution except through repentance appropriate to his offence.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'When the intellect practices the virtues correctly, it advances in moral understanding. When it practices contemplation, it advances in spiritual knowledge. The first leads the spiritual contestant to discriminate between virtue and vice; the second leads the participant to the inner qualities of incorporeal and corporeal things. Finally, the intellect is granted the grace of theology when, carried on wings of love beyond these two former stages, it is taken up into God and with the help of the Holy Spirit discerns - as far as this is possible for the human intellect - the qualities of God.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'One day the Lord caused me to hear these words at the foot of the tabernacle: "My son, he who embraces Me embraces thorns." Oh, what a grace! Oh, what a gift!'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'Hold any man's salvation at greater value than all the treasures of the world.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'Let us go to the foot of the Cross, and there complain -- if we have the courage.'

St. Madeleine Sophie Barat

[Shin]

'Brethren, says St. Paul, let the great business of your eternal salvation be the sole object of all your care.

It is the most important affair, because if the soul be lost, all is lost.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'There is where I study my sermon - at the foot of the crucifix.'

St. Paul of the Cross