Quote for the Night

[Shin]

'Blessed the one who draws near with fear and trembling and dread to the spotless Mysteries of the Saviour and has realized that he has received in himself eternal life.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

[Shin]

'If you wish to remember God unceasingly, do not reject as undeserved what happens to you, but patiently accept it as your due. For patient acceptance of whatever happens kindles the remembrance of God, whereas refusal to accept weakens the spiritual purpose of the heart and so makes it forgetful.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'To him therefore who knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.'

James 4:17

[Shin]

'We actively manifest love in forbearance and patience towards our neighbor, in genuinely desiring his good, and in the right use of material things.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'Buffoonery incapacitates a person from receiving any additional spirituality from God. Nay more, it roots up the little a man may have already acquired.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'. . . God has inflicted the severest chastisement on the world, sending deluges of water and fire from heaven, in punishment of the sin of incontinence. . .'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'In your prayers, if you would quickly and surely draw upon you the grace of God, pray in a special manner for our Holy Church and all those connected with it.'

St. Louis de Blois

[Shin]

'Guard yourself from that mother of vices, self-love, which is mindless love for the body. For it gives birth with specious justification to the three first and most general of the impassioned thoughts. I mean those of gluttony, avarice and self-esteem, which take as their pretext some so-called need of the body. All further vices are generated by these three. You must therefore be on your guard, as we have already said, and fight against self-love with great vigilance. For when this vice is eradicated, all the others are eradicated too.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'The intellect cannot be still unless the body is still also; and the wall between them cannot be demolished without stillness and prayer.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'Sickness is a good discipline and a rough hair-cloth. Oh, how pleasing to God are the disciplines which He sends us!'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'In all your doubts and anxieties, think of Mary, call upon her name.'

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

[Shin]

'The grace of perseverance is the most important of all; it crowns all other graces.'

St. Vincent de Paul

[Shin]

'To make ourselves disaffected to the things of the world, it is a good thing to think seriously of the end of them, saying to ourselves, "And then? And then?"'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'When we enter ornate and clean Basilicas, adorned with crosses, sacred images, altars and burning lamps, we most easily conceive devotion. But on the other hand, when we enter the temples of the heretics, where there is nothing except a chair for preaching and a table for making a meal, we feel ourselves to be entering a profane hall and not the House of God.'

St. Robert Bellarmine

[Shin]

'Among the things we ought to ask of God, is perseverance in well-doing and in serving the Lord; because, if we only have patience, and persevere in the good life we have begun to lead, we shall acquire a most eminent degree of spirituality.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori