Quote for the Night

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'Praised be Jesus Christ.'

St. Conrad of Parzham

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'My Fiance says nothing to me, and I say nothing to Him either, except that I love Him more than myself. . .'

St. Therese of Lisieux

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'How can we sin with the cross of Jesus before our eyes!'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'Undistracted prayer is a sign of love for God; but careless or distracted prayer is a sign of love for pleasure.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'True love is found only in complete self-forgetfulness, and it is only after we have detached ourselves from every creature that we find Jesus.'

St. Therese of Lisieux

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'It seems to me that the happiness of a soul consists entirely in conforming to the most adorable Will of God; for in so doing the heart finds peace and the spirit joy and repose, since he "who is joined to the Lord in one spirit" with Him. (1 Cor. 6:17).'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'Heretics are to be converted by an example of humility and other virtues far more readily than by any external display or verbal battles. So let us arm ourselves with devout prayers and set off showing signs of genuine humility and go barefooted to combat Goliath.'

St. Dominic

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'How is it possible to offend a God scourged, a God crowned with thorns, a God crucified for us? And how is it possible that, seriously pondering these truths of faith, we can yet offend God?'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'An intellect dominated by the passions thinks base thoughts; words and actions bring these thoughts into the open. '

St. Thalassios the Libyan

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'The heart of a man changeth his countenance, either for good, or for evil. The token of a good heart, and a good countenance thou shalt hardly find, and with labour.'

Ecclesiasticus 13:31-32

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'O how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men.'

Wisdom 4:1

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'He who drives out self-love, the mother of the passions, will with God's help easily rid himself of the rest, such as anger, irritation, rancor and so on. But he who is dominated by self-love is overpowered by the other passions, even against his will. Self-love is the passion of attachment to the body.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

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'Happy the man to whom God has given the science of the saints. [Sap. x. 10.] Oh, how sublime the science which teaches us to know how to love God and to save our souls!

Happy, says St. Augustine, is the man "who knows God, although he is ignorant of other things." They who know God, the love which he merits, and how to love him, stand not in need of any other knowledge. They are wiser than those who are masters of many sciences, but know not how to love God.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.'

St. Philip Neri

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'Whosoever revolteth, and continueth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that continueth in the doctrine, the same hath both Father and the Son. If any man come to you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into the house, nor say to him, "God speed you." For he that saith unto him, "God speed you," communicateth with his wicked works.'

2 John 9-11