Quote for the Night

[Shin]

'My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the souls and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

[Shin]

'The lover of Jesus will be freed from evil; the disciples of Jesus will behold true knowledge.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'I also intend that, as I tell the sweet memory of the saints of the past in their books, each creature ought to make itself praiseworthy in its creator through the manifestation of the divine Providence conferred upon it by the divine Creator. In this, one will know globally the infinite charity of our Lord God when, through his mercy, he deigns to help and conserve his creation each day, keeping it safe amid accidents and frequent dangers.'

St. Catherine of Bologna

[Shin]

'The love of God is a jealous love. One atom of irregular affection for creatures suffices to ruin everything.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'It seems that God is calling you to great perfection. And I perceive it by this, that He takes away from you every tie that might hinder it in you.'

St. Catherine of Siena

[Shin]

'They who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time, may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'Your name will be written in this Sacred Heart in indelible characters.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'The devil belittles small sins; otherwise he cannot lead us into greater ones.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'This I say, because God showed me somewhat of his truth, in order that I might know what man is without him; that is, when the soul is found in mortal sin, at that time, it is so monstrous and horrible to behold, that it is impossible to imagine anything equally so.'

St. Catherine of Genoa

[Shin]

'Strike, strike this rebellious flesh, this enemy of virtue, for it is the cause of all my evils. Hitherto I have shown it too great indulgence, and I have cherished it with too much care. It is just that it should now suffer with me, since it participated in my sins.'

St. John of God

[Shin]

'I beg of Him with all my heart to make you ever faithful to what He asks of you, ready to sacrifice to Him all that costs you the most, according as He makes His Will known to you, for there is no middle course; He will have all or nothing.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'They [religious] live more purely, they fall more rarely, they rise more speedily, they are aided more powerfully, they live more peacefully, they die more securely, and they are rewarded more abundantly.'

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

[Shin]

'In all your afflictions and interior desolations make frequent acts of total abandonment to the will of God. Recite the chaplet which St. Gertrude composed of these words only: Fiat voluntas tua - "May Thy will be done." At other times say, with sentiments of perfect conformity to the divine will, "Thou art just, O Lord! and all Thy judgments are just, and all Thy ways are mercy, and truth, and judgment." (Tobias iii. 2.)'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'Below the first, there is a second kind of prayer, when words are uttered, while the heart is touched, and the mind follows them, and knows to Whom the supplication is addressed.'

St. Nilus of Sinai

[Shin]

'What punishment will not that servant bring upon himself who knows the will of his Master and does not do it?'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'Our falls are the result of the continual revolt of our passions. But we need not be troubled, cast down or discouraged by them; we must do violence to ourselves and draw profit from them.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque