Quote for the Night

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'Did he not express himself clearly to those whose souls' eyes are open and whose ears hear? Namely, when you have enjoyed a notable success in warring against the carnal vices and you see that you have been freed from their filthiness and from this world's way of life, you should not be puffed up with the success of the struggle and the victory and ascribe this to your own strength and wisdom, believing that you were able to obtain victory over evil spirits and carnal vices through your own efforts and application and free will. There is no doubt that you would never have been able to prevail over these if the Lord's help had not fortified and protected you.'

St. John Cassian

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'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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'We brought our present disgrace upon ourselves, preferring destruction to the delights of blessedness. We have paid for this, for we have exchanged eternal life for death.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

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'It is very necessary to be cheerful, but we must not on that account give in to a buffooning spirit.'

St. Philip Neri

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'I want you to understand, that there is such a thing as a holy anger that springs from the zeal that we have for the interests of God.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

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'Most excellent masters and doctors: When I entered Moravia, I worked with all my might against the lying heresies of the Bohemians, as, indeed, I was in duty bound to do. Undeterred by threats or fear of violence, I spoke in public and to the best of my ability to confute that impious doctrine of theirs that it was necessary for salvation to communicate under both kinds. And so it came to pass that more than 4,000 barons, nobles, and priests renounced the Hussite heresy in my hands, besides many other persons who live under the rule of said barons.'

St. John of Capistrano

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'He who has disciplined his body and dwells in a state of spiritual knowledge finds that through this knowledge he is purified still further.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

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'If you wish to take up your abode in the tabernacle of the heavenly kingdom, you must reach there through your good works, without which you can not hope to enter.'

St. Benedict

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'The Father bears witness from heaven to His Son. The Holy Spirit bears witness, coming down bodily in the form of a dove. The archangel Gabriel bears witness, bringing the good tidings to Mary. The Virgin Mother of God bears witness.'

St. Cyril of Jerusalem

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'If in times of dryness in prayer we make acts of humility, self-knowledge, protestations of our own inability to help ourselves, and petitions for God's assistance, all this is real and substantial prayer.'

St. Philip Neri

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'God has no need of men.'

St. Philip Neri

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'We are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.'

1 Corinthians 4:9

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'If you wish to arrive speedily at the summit of perfection, animate yourself to a true love of shame, insults and calumny.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'You must avoid every vice, but above all those which tempt you most: it is in these you will find your greatest danger, if you do not take wise precautions.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'Happy the man to whom God has given the science of the saints. [c.f. Sap. x. 10.] Oh, how sublime the science which teaches us to know how to love God and to save our souls!

Happy, says St. Augustine, is the man "who knows God, although he is ignorant of other things." They who know God, the love which he merits, and how to love him, stand not in need of any other knowledge. They are wiser than those who are masters of many sciences, but know not how to love God.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'Seek the good, desire their company. Look for the company of the saints. If you will share their way of acting, you will share their virtue. If you walk with wise men, you will be wise; if you walk with idiots, you will be an idiot, for persons seek those of similar stripe.'

St. Isidore of Seville

'Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.'

St. Philip Neri