Quote for the Night

[Shin]

'O you who are cold and dead, go to the fount of life!'

St. Bernardine of Siena

[Shin]

'We ought to pray God importunately to increase in us every day the light and heat of his goodness.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'It is clear therefore that nothing is greater, and nothing better than to enter into the inner secret place of the mind always and in every tribulation and occurrence, and there to call upon the Lord Jesus Christ himself, our helper in temptations and tribulations, and to humble ourselves there by confession of sin, and praise God and Father himself, the giver of correction and the giver of consolation. Above all one should accept everything, in general and individually, in oneself or in others, agreeable or disagreeable, with a prompt and confident spirit, as coming from the hand of his infallible Providence or the order he has arranged. '

St. Albert the Great

[Shin]

'In order to make good use of time we must love ardently and constantly; we must surrender ourselves entirely to love, leaving it to act for us. Be satisfied to adhere to it in everything, but always with profound humility.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'Christ, Master of all, free us from all these destructive passions and the thoughts born of them.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'We know very well that it is not enough to fast exteriorly if we do not also fast interiorly, and if we do not accompany the fast of the body with that of the spirit.'

St. Francis de Sales

[Shin]

' . . . we must fast with our whole heart, that is to say, willingly, whole-heartedly, universally and entirely.'

St. Francis de Sales

[Shin]

'He who loves God lives the angelic life on earth, fasting and keeping vigils, praying and singing psalms and always thinking good of every man.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'If no poor could be found in the world, men ought to go in search of them, and dig them up from underground to do them good, and to be merciful to them.'

St. Camillus de Lellis

[Shin]

'He who wants to cross the spiritual sea is long-suffering, humble, vigilant and self-controlled. If he impetuously embarks on it without these four virtues, he agitates his heart, but cannot cross.

Stillness helps us by making evil inoperative. If it also takes to itself these four virtues in prayer, it is the most direct support in attaining dispassion.'

St. Mark the Ascetic