Quote for the Night

[Shin]

'Contrition, Peter, manifests itself in many forms of spiritual beauty. For this reason, Jeremiah says, "For these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water." However, there are two essential kinds of contrition.  When the soul, thirsting, seeks God, at the outset it feels contrition out of fear, but afterwards out of desire.'

Pope St. Gregory the Great

[odhiambo]

"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus."
Mother Teresa

[George]

The womb of our Immaculate Mother Mary is wholly untouched, not dug or sown, from heaven's dew alone it brings forth a Savior, and provides mortal men with the bread of angels and the food for eternal life.
St. Irenaeus

[Shin]

'I am now thirty years praying daily that my Lord Jesus may preserve me from saying an idle word, and yet I am always relapsing.'

St. Sisoes

[George]

Let us stand fast in what is right and prepare our souls for trial. Let us wait upon God's strengthening aid.
St. Boniface

[Shin]

Always with God in all trials!

[Shin]

'Go, and join a man who fears God, and live near him; he will teach you, too, to fear God.'

St. Poemen

[Poche]

The prosecutor wanted to pressure St thomas More to sign in agreement to Henry VIII's supremacy of the church in England. "I will threaten you with justice," he said. Thomas More's reply was "If it is justice them I am not threatened.
   

[Shin]

If it is justice. . .

How many people know what justice is, in fact, and love it as a virtue?

On the contrary they consider punishment a sin.


'Do justice, God sees you.'

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

[George]

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will enter his house and dine with him, and he with me.
Revelation 3:20

[odhiambo]

"I believe in order to understand; and I understand, the better to believe."
Saint Augustine

[Shin]

'It is obligatory on us to lead to Jesus Christ our Lord, by the most direct and surest path, those who live under the same roof with us.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[odhiambo]

"God judged it better to bring good out of evil  than to suffer no evil to exist."
Saint Augustine

[Shin]

'Know that if you wish to possess Jesus Christ and to dwell in His Sacred Heart, you must have no other desire and be content with Him alone.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there. I am not now speaking of simple charity, a love due to all mankind, but of that spiritual friendship which binds souls together, leading them to share devotions and spiritual interests, so as to have but one mind between them. . . There are two sayings in Holy Scripture on which all Christian friendship should be built: - that of the Wise Man, "Whoso feareth the Lord shall direct his friendship aright;" and that of St. James, "The friendship of the world is enmity with God."'

St. Francis de Sales

[Shin]

'When we go into the garden, it is not to gather the leaves, but the fruits; so in the sacred garden of prayer we ought not to amuse ourselves with the leaves of sentiment and sensible consolation, but rather reap the fruits of the virtues of Jesus.'

St. Paul of the Cross

I need to think more about how to realize this one.