Quote for the Night

[Shin]

'"In the company of the innocent, you will be innocent; in the company of the elect, you will be elect; and in a crooked man's company you will go wrong." [Ps. 18:26,27]

Let us, then, follow the innocent and the upright. They, it is, who are God's elect.'

Pope St. Clement I of Rome

[Shin]

'When the body is urged by the senses to indulge its own desires and pleasures, the corrupted intellect readily succumbs and assents to its impassioned fantasies and impulses. But the regenerated intellect exercises self-control and withholds itself from them. Moreover, as a true philosopher it studies how to rectify such impulses.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'Come, return! Was all thy method of living honest? Come, return unto every good act that thou hast forsaken!'

St. Bernardine of Siena

[Shin]

'My admonition to thee, whom in spite of thy weakness and poverty I have chosen with such generous kindness as my disciple and companion, is this: that thou strive with all thy powers to imitate me in an exercise, in which I preserved during my whole life from the very first moment of my birth, omitting it on not a single day, however how full of cares and labors it might have been.

This exercise was the following: every day at beginning of dawn, I prostrated myself in the presence of the Most High and gave Him thanks and praise fore His immutable Being, his infinite perfections and for having created me out of nothing; acknowledging myself as his creature and the work of his hands, I blessed Him, and adored Him, giving Him honor, magnificence and Divinity, as the supreme Lord and Creator of myself and of all that exists. I raised up my spirit to place it into his hands, offering myself with profound humility and resignation to Him and asking Him to dispose of me according to his will that day and during all the days of my life, and to teach me to fulfill whatever would be to his greater pleasure. This I repeated many times during the external works of the day, and in the internal ones I first consulted his Majesty, asking for his advise, permission and benediction for all my actions.'

The Blessed Virgin, to Ven. Mary of Agreda

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'To use the members of a religious order for the service of God, to the violation of the rule, is to throw down a tree to gather its fruit.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.'

St. Benedict

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'And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee.'

John 17:5

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'Men should often renew their good resolutions, and not lose heart because they are tempted against them.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'When a man is out of the right way the more quickly and impetuously he advances, the more he errs.'

St. Augustine