Quote for the Night

[George]

Remember this, sister, for your whole life, as waters flow from the mountains down into the valleys, so, too, do God's graces flow only into humble souls.
St. Faustina

[odhiambo]

"Truth suffers, but never dies."
St. Teresa of Avila

[odhiambo]

“Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul”.
 St. Bernard of Clairvaux

[odhiambo]

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

[Shin]

'As the coat or garment that you have on was made by another, and you wear it, and your house was created or built by another, and you live in it, so when Adam transgressed the commandment of God, and hearkened to the wicked serpent, he was sold, or sold himself, to the devil, and the evil one put on his soul like a garment -- his soul, that fair creation, which God had fashioned after His own image.

Thus the apostle says, Having stripped the principalities and powers, He triumphed over them in the cross. [Col. 2:15] This was the purpose of the Lord's coming, that He might cast them out, and recover His own house and temple, man. For this reason, the soul is called the body of the darkness of wickedness, as long as the darkness of sin is in it, because there it lives to the evil world of darkness, and is there held fast.

So Paul calls it the body of sin, the body of death, saying, that the body of sin might be destroyed, [Rom 6:6] and, Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?' [Rom. 7:24]

St. Macarius the Egyptian

[George]

The one who is our very life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in Heaven.
St. Augustine

[Shin]

'Do we not admire Joseph, a young man of seventeen, for enduring his temptation to the end? And God glorified him. Do we not also see Job, how he suffered to the end, and lived in endurance? Temptations cannot destroy hope in God.'

St. Poemen

[odhiambo]

“I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know him or have forgotten him.”
 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

[Shin]

She decided to do her best for Christ!

[Shin]

'Those engaged in spiritual warfare practice self-control in everything, and do not desist until the Lord destroys all "seed from Babylon" (Jer. 27:16. LXX). '

St. Mark the Ascetic

[odhiambo]

“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.
 But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”
St. Joan of Arc

[Shin]

'When you are in trouble and anxiety, go and plunge yourself in the peace of this adorable Heart, which no one can take from you.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[odhiambo]

"Oh, how precious time is! Blessed are those who know how to make good use of it. Oh, if only all could understand how precious time is, undoubtedly everyone would do his best to spend it in a praiseworthy manner!"

Padre Pio

[George]

Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to him by whom they come!
Luke 17:1

[Shin]

May the Lord save folks from scandal!

[George]

Enter into the secret chamber of your heart; leave everything outside but God; and when you have shut the door, then truly seek him.
St. Anselm