Quote for the Night

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'Let us remember that every act of mortification is a work for heaven. This thought will make all suffering and weariness sweet.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'As a mother feels no disgust in dressing the sores of her child, so Mary, the heavenly infirmarian, never refuses to care for sinners who have recourse to her.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'Learn to be silent sometimes for the edification of others, that you may learn how to speak sometimes.'

St. Vincent Ferrer

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'How is it you do not fear to touch the work of God; do you not fear the chastisement His justice prepares for you?'

St. Lydwine of Schiedam

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'My dear ones, time is always so short. It is a great grace to take care of this sick friar. I must stay with him in his cell. I am glad to do it. I am in excellent health. I am very happy. I perform my religious duties and my work here is not as hard as it was at home. I wish you all the best. We are living in times when every devout soul must shudder. It looks as if the powers of hell were loosed and trying to ruin all that is good and religious. But the Lord is kind and merciful. . . '

St. Conrad of Parzham

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'Place over the eyes of your soul the bandage of holy and loving submission to God. . . Thus without reasoning or swerving from your path, go forward on your way.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'I cannot tell you how much pleasure your short letter gave me. It shows the bond of charity which unites you and my unworthy self, a bond God has established and wishes to maintain. It is with this in mind that I am writing to tell you briefly about my state of mind at the moment. I have not found here what I had hoped for and what led me to leave such a holy place as St. Sulpice, almost against my better judgement.'

St. Louis Marie de Montfort

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'We must not give up praying and asking, because we do not get what we ask all at once.'

St. Philip Neri

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'According to St. Clement there is no more perfect image of the Deity than a soul which, whether in prosperity or in adversity, always maintains its interior peace.'

St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

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'When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'Oh Lord! do with me what thou wilt.'

St. Catherine of Genoa

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'In our time more than ever before, the chief strength of the wicked lies in the cowardice and weakness of good men. . . All the strength of Satan's reign is due to the easy-going weakness of Catholics.'

Pope St. Pius X

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'Do not let the false delights of the deceptive world deceive you.'

St. Clare of Assisi

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'In the persons who go from mortal sin to mortal sin, the enemy is commonly used to propose to them apparent pleasures, making them imagine sensual delights and pleasures in order to hold them more and make them grow in their vices and sins. In these persons the good spirit uses the opposite method, pricking them and biting their consciences through the process of reason.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola, 'Spiritual Exercises'

[Shin]

'A man who has been assiduous in acquiring the fruits of love will not cease loving even if he suffers a thousand calamities. Let Stephen, the disciple of Christ, and others like him persuade you of the truth of this (cf. Acts 7:60). Our Lord Himself prayed for His murderers and asked the Father to forgive them because they did not know what they were doing (cf. Luke 23:34).'

St. Maximos the Confessor

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'We should be less alarmed for one who is tempted in the flesh, and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid the occasions.'

St. Philip Neri