Quote for the Night

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'Do justice, God sees you.'

St. Veronica Guiliani, at the age of one and a half years

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'It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time; but the great matter is - to persevere.'

St. Philip Neri

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'A most excellent means of learning how to pray, is to acknowledge ourselves unworthy of such a benefit, and to put ourselves entirely into the hands of the Lord.'

St. Philip Neri

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'Take as your motto and aspiration in every event and frame of mind, these words of our Lord: "Thy will be done!" adding: "My God I abandon myself to Thee."'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'The paralytic let down through the roof (cf. Mark 2:4) signifies a sinner reproved in God's name by the faithful and receiving forgiveness because of their faith.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'Do not let the devil frighten you. Keep yourself hidden in God, and nothing can hurt you.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'The infernal enemy never has more power against you than when he acts secretly.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'Help me; the devil wishes to make me despair. Help me; I do not wish to offend God.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'What does it matter in the light of eternity?'

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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'Even if we possess a splendid doctrine, the person who feels condemned by his own conscience remains disgraced.'

St. Jerome

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'Our Lady, deign to intercede for us sinners with thy divine Son, our Lord, and obtain of Him a blessing for us in our trials and tribulations!'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light. But it your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!'

Matthew 6:22-3

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'He who tests all things and "holds fast that which is good" (1 Thess. 5: 21) will in consequence refrain from all evil.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'Christ is Master by virtue of His own essence and Master by virtue of His incarnate life. For He creates man from nothing, and through His own Blood redeems him when dead in sin; and to those who believe in Him He has given His grace.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'May the perfect love of God reign in our hearts!'

St. Louis Marie de Montfort

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'Man is like a tree, bodily asceticism is the foliage, interior vigilance the fruit. According to that which is written, "Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be cut down and cast into the fire" (Matt. 3:10) it is clear that all our care should be directed toward the fruit, that is to say, guard of the spirit; but it needs the protection and the embellishment of the foliage, which is bodily asceticism.'

St. Agathon