Quote for the Night

[odhiambo]

'Just as I will not save myself by the good works of the angels, likewise I will not be condemned for the bad and wicked thoughts which the bad angels, the world, and the flesh present to me.'
St. Ignatius of Loyola

Shin, you have no idea what a relief this post is to me! The Lord has just used you to help me.
Thanks!
What would we do without our blessed saints?

[Shin]

 

'There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.'

St. Philip Neri

[odhiambo]

Prayer
A soul arms itself by prayer for all kinds of combat.
In whatever state the soul may be, it ought to pray.
A soul which is pure and beautiful must pray, or else it will lose its beauty;
a soul which is striving after this purity must pray, or else it will never attain it;
 a soul which is newly converted must pray, or else it will fall again;
a sinful soul, plunged in sins, must pray so that it might rise again.
There is no soul which is not bound to pray, for every single grace comes to the soul through prayer.
St. Faustina

[Shin]

'Satan. . . tries to introduce impurity by almost insensible degrees.'

St. Francis de Sales

[odhiambo]

"We are all frail but see you think no one more frail than yourself"

The Imitation of Christ
by Thomas a Kempis

[Shin]

'If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, "surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain" (Ps. 39:6. LXX).'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[odhiambo]

" Open not your heart to every man"
Sirach 8: 19

[Shin]

Prudence!

[Shin]

'The good pleasure of God, if we truly love it, ought to be preferred by us to the acquisition of all riches, of the loftiest glory, of all the delights of earth, and even of Paradise itself; for it is certain that all the blessed, if they were to know that it would please God more that they should burn in hell, one and all, even the Mother of God among them, would cast themselves into that abyss of flames, and suffer eternally in order to give greater pleasure to God.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Poche]

'They who are engaged with the salvation of their neighbor, will gain more by an humble modesty than by an authoritative manner, and will gain victory sooner in retreat than in combat.'

- St. Ignatius of Loyola

[odhiambo]

"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him"

Saint Teresa of Avila

I am happy I came across this quote of Saint Teresa of Avila
We are not to fear the devil. We fight him by talking of and with God.

[Shin]

Deo gratias et Mariae Semper Virgini!

'Your soul needs a brief winter. The winter purifies the air and the earth of foul vapors; it even invigorates the human body. If it strips the trees of their leaves, it is only to the end that they take deeper roots. The spring comes afterwards, and clothes them again with verdure and blossoms.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'A woman does not acquire a man's dignity by having her head uncovered but rather loses her own. Her shame and reproach thus derive from her desire to be like a man as well as from her actions.'

St. John Chrysostom

[James - a humble servant]

He who enters into the secret place of his own soul passes beyond himself and does in very truth ascend to God.
                                                       
~ St. Albert the Great

[Shin]

A very inspiring quote! Thank you my friend! 

[Shin]

'Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.'

St. Philip Neri