Quote for the Night

[Shin]

'I seem not to have suffered anything as yet and, consequently, I feel I have done nothing for my God.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'So the enemy made up his mind against her and aroused some people of high status in the world who secretly asked her to please agree to go and stay in their house in the company of one of their lonely little daughters, and said that if it was necessary to obtain permission from the pope or from anyone else, she should not doubt that all which was necessary to the health of the soul and the body would be provided her better than she could know how to ask for it. . . She did not consent to all these promises, but stayed firmly and constantly in the aforementioned place with full faith that she was still established in the cloister under the Rule of St. Clare. And so it was.'

St. Catherine of Bologna

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'One day the Lord let me see a huge bundle of crosses. At the same time He inspired me interiorly to plunge my own will, as a drop of water, into the immense ocean of the most amiable will of God. I did so, and in the twinkling of an eye all the crosses disappeared.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'The irreligious man is a mortal being with a rational nature, who of his own free will turns his back on life and thinks of his own Maker, the ever-existent, as non-existing. The lawless man is one who holds the law of God after his own depraved fashion, and thinks to combine faith in God with heresy that is directly opposed to Him. The Christian is one who imitates Christ in thought word and deed, as far as is possible for human beings, believing rightly and blamelessly in the Holy Trinity. The love of God is he who lives in communion with all that is natural and sinless, and as far as he is able neglects nothing good. The content man is he who in the midst of temptations, snares and turmoil, strives with all his might to imitate the ways of Him who is free from these. The monk is he who within his early and soiled body toils towards the rank and state of the incorporeal beings [angels], who strictly controls his nature and unceasingly watches over his senses, mouth pure, and mind illumined.'

St. John Climacus

[Shin]

'A man without prayer is an animal without the use of reason.'

St. Philip Neri

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'Behold, this is the true and the Christian humility. In this you will be able to achieve victory over every vice, by attributing to God rather than to yourself the fact that you have won.'

St. Martin of Braga

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'Let the admirable modesty of your Saviour be seen in your countenance, in your movements, and in your apparel.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my precepts. For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life and peace.'

Proverbs 3:1-2

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'God permits that kind of temptation in order to impress you with a deeper sense of your own nothingness, and to convince you that, deprived of His grace, you would be capable of committing the most heinous crimes. Therefore act prudently, avoid all dangerous intercourse, watch over your eyes, your heart, and all your affections; be very modest, be circumspect in all your actions, by night as well as by day; love holy modesty.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'Take for your motto: Love has conquered me, it alone shall possess my heart.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'Therefore, my beloved brethren, we should not look at these temporal things, but fix our attention on those which are eternal. Though affliction may come, it will have an end, though insult and persecution, yet are they nothing to the hope which is set [before us]. For all present matters are trifling compared with those which are future; the sufferings of this present time not being worthy to be compared with the hope that is to come. For what can be compared with the kingdom? or what is there in comparison with life eternal?'

St. Athanasius

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'Devote yourself ceaselessly to the words of God: application to them destroys the passions.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

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'These sacrifices, which by you are offered to devils, neither can avail the worshippers, nor fulfil the desires and petitions of the suppliants. Rather, whosoever shall offer sacrifice to these images, shall receive the everlasting pains of hell for his reward.'

St. Alban, martyr

[Shin]

'Alas! How men deceive themselves, who, thinking they are spiritual, seek to guide souls!'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'We should guard against jealousy, and even the slightest sentiment thereof. This vice is absolutely opposed to a pure and sincere zeal for the glory of God, and is a certain proof of secret and subtle pride.'

St. Vincent de Paul