Quote for the Night

[Shin]

'Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.'

James 1:17

[Shin]

'I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world.'

John 6:51-52

[Shin]

'To mortify one passion, no matter how small, is a greater help in the spiritual life than many abstinences, fasts, and disciplines.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'To assure our salvation it does not suffice to call ourselves children of Mary, therefore let us always have the fear of God.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

[Shin]

'We ought to imitate the gardeners and the vine-dressers; when a storm breaks out they retire to the shed, and remain there until the storm has passed. So, in the midst of the tempests with which we are threatened on account of our sins and those of the world, we should retire under the golden tent of the divine will, rejoicing that the good pleasure of the Sovereign Master is being accomplished in all things.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'Teach your heart to guard that which your tongue teaches.'

St. Poemen

[Shin]

'The more the intellect is purified, the more the soul is granted spiritual knowledge of divine principles.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'One of the clearest proofs that we love God is to seek only His good pleasure, to desire God alone: Dilectus meus mihi et ego illi - "My Beloved to me, and I to Him " (Cant. ii. 16), and to do His will as soon as we know it.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'No more of the world, no more of the world.'

St. Camillus de Lellis

[Shin]

'The demons either tempt us themselves or arm against us those who have no fear of the Lord. They tempt us themselves when we withdraw from human society, as they, tempted our Lord in the desert. They tempt us through other people when we spend our time in the company of others, as they tempted our Lord through the Pharisees. But whichever line of attack they choose, let us repel them by keeping our gaze fixed on the Lord's example.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'It is our Lord's desire to communicate Himself to us as abundantly as possible. But each one receives Him according to his capacity and preparation.'

Bl. Peter Julian Eymard

[Shin]

'It seems to me that I am awaiting a thousand years the happiness of going to my God, my supreme good.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'Alas! the poor infidels, who have not the happiness of knowing God and His infinite loveliness, have the same crosses that we have; but they have not the same consolations.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

[Shin]

'Those who are under the sway of passions must pray and be obedient. For even when they receive help, they can only just manage to fight against their prepossessions.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'Be assured that one great means to find favor when we appear before God is to have pardoned the injuries we have received here below.'

Ven. Louis de Granada

[Shin]

'And as Adam opposed his own will to the divine will, so we must seek to have the will of God as our only object, and by it to have our own disposed and annihilated. And as we cannot by ourselves discover our own evil inclinations, and our secret self-love, nor possibly annihilate our own self-will, it is very useful to subject our will to that of some other creature, and to do its bidding for the love of God.'

St. Catherine of Genoa