Quote for the Night

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'Let us despise gold, silver, jewels, and all that the blind and cheated world vainly and ignorantly prizes.'

St. Philip Neri

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'. . . he that shall drink of the water that I will give him, shall not thirst for ever: But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.'

John 4:13-14

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'Be generous, and remember that we ought to walk in the footsteps of Jesus crucified.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'Ah, my buried Jesus, I kiss the Stone that encloses Thee.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'Because of Adam's transgression the Savior became man, so that by nullifying the sentence passed on us He might resurrect all of us.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

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'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

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'My only desire is to unite myself to my God.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'I am resolved no longer to be guided by my own ideas; dispose of me as you think best.'

St. Alphonsus Rodriguez

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'For it is impossible for a person to deserve to triumph over a passion before he has understood that he is not able to obtain victory in the struggle by his own diligence and his own effort, even though in order to be cleansed he must always be careful and attentive, day and night.'

St. John Cassian

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'I have good hopes of converting the erring ones; still they will put me to death. It is certain!'

St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, martyr

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'Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.'

1 John 2:15

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'For the just man falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble to ruin.'

Proverbs 24:16

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'Perceiving the Christian religion tottering this long time, the primary means of salvation neglected; and being moved by the manifest danger and perdition of the flock of Christ, we recur to the doctrine of the Fathers, ordaining nothing new, nothing of our own invention; form the full conviction of the necessity of embracing the exclusive and primary path of salvation -- the trite path of the Saints: because we are not aware of any other entrance, for either flock or pastors, into the kingdom of heaven than that which is pointed out by him who said, I am the gate; whosoever will enter through me, shall find security and pasture; and what we find preached by the Apostles, and observed by the Fathers.'

Pope St. Gregory VII

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'He who does not like working, feeds passions by idleness and gives his desires freedom to fly to kindred objects. This is specially evident in prayer, for then the attention of the mind is wholly absorbed in what occupies the heart, and thought merely turns over and over the suggestions offered by the stirrings of some passion, instead of conversing with God and asking Him for what profits it. Knowing this, St. Paul vigorously attacks idleness and by his Apostolic authority commands all to work. [II Thessalonians 3:6-12] Work is an anchor for thought and gives it a safe direction. Let storms and gusts of wind come from all sides, threatening shipwreck -- thought stands firm, kept steadfast by work as by an anchor; even if somewhat agitated by rising suggestions, it is not led into danger, for the bonds that hold it fast are stronger than the driving winds.'

St. Nilus of Sinai

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'When you fail in simplicity and humility, you lose the friendship of the Sacred Heart. Your heart is then left like barren soil which only produces the thorns and thistles of faults and imperfections -- this refers to willful faults.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'How beautiful is a pure soul! Our Lord showed one to St. Catherine; she thought it so beautiful that she said, "O Lord, if I did not know that there is only one God, I should think it was one." The image of God is reflected in a pure soul, like the sun in the water. A pure soul is the admiration of the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity. The Father contemplates His work: There is My creature! . . . The Son, the price of His Blood: the beauty of an object is shown by the price it has cost. . . The Holy Spirit dwells in it, as in a temple.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars