Quote for the Night

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'Who is able to enter into the secret judgements of God? Wherefore those things which in divine examination we cannot comprehend, we ought rather to fear than curiously to discuss.'

Pope St. Gregory the Great

[Shin]

'O Most Holy Mother of my Jesus, you who saw and felt the extreme desolation of your dear Son, help me in my own time of desolation.

And you saints of Heaven who have passed through this trial, have pity on those who are suffering it now and pray that I be given the grace to be faithful until death.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

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'Do not think that the loss of virtue is a minor matter, for it was through such a loss that death came into the world.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

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'My crucified Jesus, I protest that I desire not the things of the earth; for Thou alone suffices! for me, Thou alone, my God and my All!'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'He who has learned the law properly fears the Lawgiver and, fearing Him, he turns away from every evil.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'My divine spouse has made me desire a humble and hidden life. Jesus has often told me that I will not die until I have sacrificed all to Him. And to convince me, He has often told me that when it is over, at the hour of death, He alone, Jesus crucified, will console me. I will carry only Him, my faithful friend, with me to my grave. It is madness to attach myself to anything other than Him.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

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'God never so abandons His Church that worthy servants of the altar in sufficient numbers are not to be found, if only the worthy are ordained and the unworthy debarred from ordination.'

St. Thomas Aquinas

[Shin]

'While undressing at night I will think of death, and my bed will remind me of my burial.'

St. Anthony Mary Claret

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'Everyone -- past, present, and future -- will be judged. Now, then, is the time for mercy, while the time to come will be the time for justice only. For that reason, the present time is ours, but the future time will be God's only!'

St. Thomas Aquinas

[Shin]

'What a misfortune that there are so few souls who know the hidden treasure contained in prayer and union with God!'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'I call it consolation when some interior movement in the soul is caused, through which the soul comes to be inflamed with love of its Creator and Lord; and when it can in consequence love no created thing on the face of the earth in itself, but in the Creator of them all. Likewise, when it sheds tears that move to love of its Lord, whether out of sorrow for one's sins, or for the Passion of Christ our Lord, or because of other things directly connected with His service and praise. Finally, I call consolation every increase of hope, faith and charity, and all interior joy which calls and attracts to heavenly things and to the salvation of one's soul, quieting it and giving it peace in its Creator and Lord.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola, 'Spiritual Exercises'

[Shin]

'Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home in thy cell, that thou go not running about into many places, unless for necessity, or for obedience to the prioress, or for charity's sake; and another spiritual home, which thou art to carry with thee always -- the cell of true self-knowledge, where thou shalt find within thyself knowledge of the goodness of God.'

St. Catherine of Siena

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'Bring back those who have unhappily joined these sects. Expose especially the error of those who have been deceived or those who assert now that only social utility, progress, and the exercise of mutual benefits are the intention of these dark associations. Explain to them often and fix deeper in their minds the pontifical decrees on this matter. Teach them that these decrees refer not only to Masonic groups in Europe, but also those in America and in other regions of the world.'

Pope Pius IX, 'Etsi Multa'

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'Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.'

St. Philip Neri

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'The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.'

St. Isidore of Seville

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'It is a certain, well established fact that no other crime so seriously offends God and provokes His greatest wrath as the vice of heresy. Nothing contributes more to the down fall of provinces and kingdoms than this frightful pest.'

St. Charles Borromeo