Quote for the Night

[Shin]

'The mystery of the incarnation of the Logos is the key to all the arcane symbolism and typology in the Scriptures, and in addition gives us knowledge of created things, both visible and intelligible. He who apprehends the mystery of the cross and the burial apprehends the inward essences of created things; while he who is initiated into the inexpressible power of the resurrection apprehends the purpose for which God first established everything.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'Prayer is our principal weapon. By it we obtain of God the victory over our evil inclinations, and over all temptations of hell.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'The beginning of evil is the lack of vigilance.'

St. Poemen

[Shin]

'Often make acts of love of our Lady, the saints, and the holy angels. Make friends with them. Talk with them frequently, using words of praise and tenderness. When you have gained familiar access to the citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem above, you will grieve far less at bidding farewell to those of the mean city here below.'

St. Francis de Sales

[Shin]

'He who is to be saved must make not only sin dead to his will but also his will dead to sin. He must resurrect not only his will by means of virtue but also virtue by means of his will. In this way the will, being put to death and entirely disjoined from the totality of sin, which likewise has been put to death, becomes impervious to sin, while as revivified it becomes wholly conscious, through its unbroken union with it, of the totality of virtue, which itself has been revivified. For he who has made his will dead to sin has been united with the likeness of the death of Christ; and he who has given his will new life through righteousness has also become one with His resurrection (cf. Rom. 6:5).'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'The person who fears the Lord has humility as his constant companion and, through the thoughts which humility inspires, reaches a state of divine love and thankfulness. For he recalls his former worldly way of life, the various sins he has committed and the temptations which have befallen him since his youth; and he recalls, too, how the Lord delivered him from all this, and how He led him away from a passion-dominated life to a life ruled by God. Then, together with fear, he also receives love, and in deep humility continually gives thanks to the Benefactor and Helmsman of our lives.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'An impassioned conceptual image is a thought compounded of passion and a conceptual image. If we separate the passion from the conceptual image, what remains is the passion-free thought. We can make this separation by means of spiritual love and self-control, if only we have the will.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'Blessed the one who has made his fellow servants glad with spiritual gladness from the fruit of the virtues, which he planted by toiling to give back the fruit of life in the Lord.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

[Shin]

'The Father loveth the Son: and he hath given all things in his hand. He that believeth in the Son, hath life everlasting: but he that is incredulous to the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God remaineth upon him.'

John 3:35-36

[Shin]

'In order the better to gain souls, in visiting the sick, we ought to imagine that what we do for the sick man we are doing for Christ Himself; we shall thus perform this work of mercy with more love and greater spiritual profit.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'The sublime providence of the Creator preserves everything that is.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'Learn that the more thou retirest into thy nothingness, the more My greatness stoops to find thee.'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'Blessed the one who continually remembers the fear of Gehenna and hastens with tears and groans to repent sincerely in the Lord, for he will be delivered from the great tribulation.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

[Shin]

'The air that we breathe, the bread that we eat, the heart which throbs in our bosoms, are not more necessary for man that he may live as a human being, than is prayer for the Christian that he may live as a Christian.'

St. Jean Eudes

[Shin]

'I do not know a greater happiness than to die for Jesus Christ, or for the salvation of my neighbor.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola