Quote for the Night

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'Why so much fatigue to procure earthly happiness for a soul whose origin is heavenly, a transient glory for a soul capable of loving and enjoying God Himself forever.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'There is a way, that seems right to a man, but the end of it leads to death.'

Proverbs 14:12

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'If I could find any good in any creature, (which, however, is impossible) I would tear it from her, and restore it all to God.'

St. Catherine of Genoa

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'No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

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'Love, glory and praise be forever to the Heart of our adorable Saviour, for It is all love, all loving and all lovable!'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'One does not conquer his anger by flying the cause, but by fighting it. Solitude does not do away with impatience, but only conceals it.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'The soul is more precious than the whole world!'

St. John Chrysostom

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'O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in your sight, but according to your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.'

St. Arsenius

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'I wish that I always had at hand a weeding tool to root up and entirely destroy the weed which continually springs up in my garden. You understand me; I mean that I endeavor to strip my soul of all that is not God.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'We do not know God from His essence. We know Him rather from the grandeur of His creation and from His providential care for all creatures. For through these, as though they were mirrors, we may attain insight into His infinite goodness, wisdom and power.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

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'I must die to myself continually and accept trials without complaining. I work, I suffer and I love with no other witness than His Heart. Anyone who is not prepared to suffer all for the Beloved and to do His will in all things is not worthy of the sweet name of Friend, for here below, Love without suffering does not exist.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

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'Patient endurance is a continuous effort for the soul; it is born of suffering freely chosen and of trials that come unsought.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

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'Acts of irreverence in churches are sins which greatly displease God; they horrify the angels, and do great harm to the soul.'

St. Benedict Joseph Labre

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'We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'One day, when the weather was extremely cold, I wished to make a fire. I went to the woods to pick up some dry branches, which had been exposed to the air for a long time. In a moment I had a big fire. Why? Because for a long time the wood had been exposed to the cold, the frost, the wind, and the sun, and had thus lost its dampness. So it is with us: if we wish our hearts to become inflamed with divine love, we must permit ourselves to be purified by suffering, humbly and resignedly, temptations, trials, persecutions, tribulations. Oh! being then well cleansed, divine love will possess us.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'But the Lord had given her such a living faith that when she heard some person saying they would have liked to have lived at the time Christ our Good walked in the world, she used to laugh to herself. She wondered what more they wanted since in the most Blessed Sacrament they had Him just as truly present as He was then.'

St. Teresa of Jesus