Quote for the Night

[Shin]

'If, we be not in fault, God will assuredly, by his all-powerful aid, enable us to become saints.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

[Shin]

'Sisters, the disputes that you have with your husbands do not arise from their imperfections so much as from yours. You answer and rejoin, and thus exasperate their minds; and so you are always in trouble. When I see my husband in a passion I do not speak; I bear with him, and pray to God for him; and thus I live in peace. Do you the same, and you too shall have peace.'

St. Monica

[James - a humble servant]

That makes you ponder and take a long look at yourself. 

[Shin]

It's good to sit back and think over!

[Shin]

'He who believes in the blessings of the world to come abstains of his own accord from the pleasures of this present world. But he who lacks such faith becomes pleasure-loving and insensitive.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[whiterockdove]

St.Monica pray for me!

[Shin]

'He who repents rightly does not imagine that it is his own effort which cancels his former sins; but through this effort he makes his peace with God.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[James - a humble servant]

Amen.

[Shin]

'Do you not hear the Lord saying: Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst? Will he be absent, then, when so many people united in love are gathered together? I have his promise; I am surely not going to rely on my own strength! I have what he has written; that is my staff, my security, my peaceful harbour. Let the world be in upheaval. I hold to his promise and read his message; that is my protecting wall and garrison. What message? Know that I am with you always, until the end of the world!'

St. John Chrysostom

 

[Shin]

'Oh, what a sweet hermitage for a soul that has faith in the stable of Bethlehem!'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'Man does not love me, would God seem to say, because he does not see me. I wish to make myself seen by him and to converse with him, and so make myself loved: "He was seen upon earth, and conversed with men."'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'No one, putting his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.'

Luke 9:62

[Shin]

'My father, do not ask me to give hostages to this body of mine. I cannot afford it. Between me and my body there must needs be a struggle until death.'

St. Margaret of Cortona

[Shin]

'When rain falls upon the earth, it gives life to the quality inherent in each plant: sweetness in the sweet, astringency in the astringent; similarly, when grace falls upon the hearts of the faithful, it gives to each the energies appropriate to the different virtues without itself changing.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[George]

"A servant who follows his master, if he be asked where he goes, might reply that he does not go, that he only follows: because it is his master's will and not his, which determines the place to which he walks."
St. Francis de Sales