Quote for the Night

[Shin]

A hidden truth!

[Shin]

'Suppose that the whole horizon, as far as you can see from this mountain, were a sea of fire; if we cast into it a bit of oakum, it will disappear in an instant. So, when you have committed a fault, humble yourself before God, and cast your fault into the infinite ocean of charity, and at once it will be effaced from your soul; at the same time all distrust will disappear.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[odhiambo]

'Resist impure images. . . Pure souls must be on guard and never doubt that chastity is incomparably finer than anything incompatible with it.'

St. Francis de Sales

[odhiambo]

'Knowledge of what is good for him has been given to every-one by God; but self-indulgence leads to negligence, and negligence to forgetfulness.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

I've heard of those evils spoken of more than once. They're more dangerous than one realizes by their very nature I am thinking, they hide the realization of that don't they?

'Not always fall of leaf, nor ever spring,
No endless night, yet not eternal day;
The saddest birds a season find to sing,
The roughest storm a calm may soon allay.
Thus, with succeeding turns, God tempereth all,
That man may hope to rise, yet fear to fall.'

St. Robert Southwell

[odhiambo]

'Our actions have a tongue of their own; they have an eloquence of their own, even when the tongue is silent. For deeds prove the lover more than words.'

St. Cyril of Jerusalem

[odhiambo]

'For young men to make sure of persevering, it is absolutely necessary that they should avoid wicked companions, and be familiar with good ones.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

Friends of good deeds!

[odhiambo]

 “The fire you threaten burns but an hour and is quenched after a little;
for you do not know the fire of the coming judgment and everlasting punishment that is laid up for the impious.
But why do you delay? come, do what you will.”
Saint Polycarp

[Shin]

'There was once a solitary who had built himself a royal palace in the trunk of an oak-tree; he had placed thorns inside of it, and he had fastened three stones over his head, so that when he raised himself or turned over he might feel the stones or the thorns.

And we, we think of nothing but finding good beds, that we may sleep at our ease.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

[odhiambo]

'Shun whoever lives dissolutely, even if many hold him in high esteem.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

Amen amen.

'It is blasphemy against the Saints, to mock them, to attribute to them defects or failings, to find fault with the honours rendered to them by the Church, &c.'

St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle

[odhiambo]

'If only a child profits by my teachings, my trouble and my time will seem to me well spent.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[odhiambo]

“The measure of love is to love without measure.”

 St. François de Sales

[odhiambo]

'Avarice is the pest of the soul.'

St. Philip Neri

[George]

We pray to God who is well disposed toward us, in order that he might give an angel of peace as a companion to protect us.
St. Basil