Quote for the Night

[Shin]

'I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world.'

John 6:51-52

[Shin]

'And as all the brethren surrounded him, he extended his hands over them in the form of a cross, crossing his arms in the form of that sign which he had ever loved; and so he blessed all the brethren, whether present or absent, in the name and in the power of the Crucified. Then he added: "Farewell, my children, abide in the fear of the Lord, and ever persevere therein. And when any temptation or trouble approaches you say: Blessed are they who persevere in those things which they have begun. And now I go to God, to whose grace I commend you all."'

St. Bonaventure, 'Life of St. Francis of Assisi'

[Shin]

'Once we have entrusted our hope about something to God, we no longer quarrel with our neighbor over it.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'Do we receive wolves into the Church, we who shun the very countenances of heretics?'

St. Pacian

[CyrilSebastian]

In The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 3 Verse 3 states:     
Let not kindness and fidelity leave you; bind them around your neck;

[Shin]

'Misericordia et veritas te non deserant; circumda eas gutturi tuo, et describe in tabulis cordis tui;'

Proverbs 3:3, Vulgate

[Shin]

'Have confidence in our Lord with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own prudence.
In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.'

Proverbs 3:5-6

[Shin]

'Wrestle for your own soul, especially in such days as these.'

St. Cyril of Jerusalem

[Shin]

'The first duty of man ordained and brought forth into this world for that end. . . is to know his creator, and being known, to confess Him, and to resign or give up his life - which is the wonderful and peculiar gift of God, - to the service and worship of the Giver; for what he received by God's free donation, may be employed in true devotion, and what was conferred upon him in the state of wrath and unworthiness, may by an obedient resignation make him precious and beloved.'

St. Eucharius of Lyons

[Shin]

'Seek the good, desire their company. Look for the company of the saints. If you will share their way of acting, you will share their virtue. If you walk with wise men, you will be wise; if you walk with idiots, you will be an idiot, for persons seek those of similar stripe.'

St. Isidore of Seville

[Shin]

'Laying away all malice, and all guile, and simulations, and envies, and all detractions, as infants even now born, reasonable, the milk without guile desire ye, that in it you may grow unto salvation: if yet you have tasted that our Lord is sweet.'

1 Peter 2:3

[Shin]

'Keep the commandments, and you will find peace; love God, and you will attain spiritual knowledge.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'Treat sinners as a good mother treats her sick child; she lavishes more caresses on him than when he is well.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'Time devours all human things, and it is but fitting that we should snatch something from it in our turn, which may turn to account for life eternal; the more especially inasmuch as a certain terrible expectation of the approach of divine judgement urges us to increase our studiousness of religious matters, and the fraudulency of new heretics requires of us much care and attention.'

St. Vincent of Lerins

[Shin]

'The more a man is under the influence of religion, the more prompt he is to oppose innovation.'

St. Vincent of Lerins

[Shin]

'We must praise God in His Saints, as the Psalmist tells us.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola