Quote for the Night

[George]

When you lie down on your bed, remember with thanksgiving the blessings and the providence of God.
St. Anthony of the Desert

[Shin]

What better way to fall asleep?

[Shin]

I'm not a fan of Mother Teresa quotes personally, because some of what she said and did, I prefer other quotes. 

[Shin]

'I shall speak first about control of the stomach, the opposite to gluttony, and about how to fast and what and how much to eat. I shall say nothing on my own account, but only what I have received from the Holy Fathers. They have not given us only a single rule for fasting or a single standard and measure for eating, because not everyone has the same strength; age, illness or delicacy of body create differences. But they have given us all a single goal: to avoid over-eating and the filling of our bellies. . . A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied.'

St. John Cassian

[Shin]

'Keep a continual remembrance of the sufferings of your heavenly Spouse. Endeavor to fathom the love with which He endured them. The shortest way is to lose yourself completely in that abyss of sufferings. Truly does the prophet call the Passion of Jesus a sea of love and of sorrow. Ah! therein lies the great secret which is revealed only to humble souls. In this vast sea the soul fishes for the pearls of virtues, and makes her own the sufferings of her Beloved. I have a lively confidence that your Spouse will teach you this divine method of fishing; He will teach it to you if you keep yourself in interior solitude, your mind free from all distraction, detached from all earthly affection, from every created thing, in pure faith and holy love.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[odhiambo]

"Run, Jump, Make Noise, but do not SIN."
Saint John Bosco

[Shin]

'I have sinned against God, and have broken His commandments a thousand times. Wretch that I am, I deserve to be beaten and ill-treated by every one, and I ought only to be considered as dirt and smoke.'

St. John of God

[odhiambo]

"Be still, and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10)

[Shin]

'O virgins, know you this, that while you retain your Virginity you are ever accompanied with Angels. Not so is it with her who is married, and is joined in matrimony. Knowest thou not that the merit of the virgin is said to be one hundred, and the merit of the married woman thirty, and of the widow sixty? Seest thou by how much the virgin doth exceed the other estates? O virgins be wise to maintain yourselves as you are; flee the sight of man!'

St. Bernardine of Siena

[odhiambo]

"No prayer is ever lost"
St. Jean Vianney

[odhiambo]

"No prayer is ever lost"
St. Jean Vianney

Really encouraging for me this fact.

[Patricia]

"Run, Jump, Make Noise, but do not SIN."
Saint John Bosco

Good advice for children!

[Brigid]

"Run, Jump, Make Noise, but do not SIN."
Saint John Bosco

And good advice for all of us (when it's painful to do it's always possible to make noise-even run with NSAIDS?)

[George]

Ask the animals, and they will teach you;
The birds of the air, and they will teach you;
Or the plants of the earth, and they will teach you;
And the fish in the sea will declare to you.
Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?
In His hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
Job 12:7-10

[odhiambo]

"Run, Jump, Make Noise, but do not SIN."
Saint John Bosco

Good advice for children!

And I am sure he was telling them. If I remember correctly, he joined street children in the plays in order to evangelize them.

[odhiambo]

“ Life without the Cross is the heaviest Cross of all"
                       
     Saint Sebastian Valfre