Quote for the Night

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'The Father spoke one Word, which was His Son, and this Word He speaks always in eternal silence, and in silence must it be heard by the soul.'

St. John of the Cross

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'Poverty, hardship, austerity and fasting, such are the instruments of the solitary life. It is written, "When these three men are together, Noah, Job, and Daniel, there am I, says the Lord." (cf. Ezek. 14:14) Noah represents poverty, Job suffering and Daniel discernment. So, if these three works are found in a man, the Lord dwells in him.'

St. Poemen

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'Through contemplation, which acquaints us with this great truth that we are nothing and that God is all, our soul is plunged into the infinite love of the Supreme Good.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'To accept words of truth is to accept the divine Word; for He says: 'He that receives you receives me' (Matt. 10:40).'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

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'The true peace of God, penetrating the depth of the soul, brings with it every help and grace necessary to secure its salvation and reach eternal life.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'Let not confusion for thy fault overwhelm thee with despair, as if there were no longer a remedy.'

St. Catherine of Siena

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'In order to avoid all risk of vain-glory, we ought to make some of our particular devotions in our own rooms, and never seek for sweetnesses and sensible consolations in public places.'

St. Philip Neri

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'It seems to me impossible not to think of God, our soul being filled with God and we absorbed in God. In the Pater Noster do we not say, "Who art in heaven"? Ah well! our soul is a spiritual heaven; there the Divine Majesty has His throne. How, then, is it possible to forget God, or not to love Him?'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'We ought to receive all things as from the hand of God, with resignation and gratitude.'

St. Fulgentius of Ruspe

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'As I was about to receive Holy Communion, our Lord told me that He would come Himself to imprint on my heart the mystical life which He leads in the Holy Eucharist, a life entirely hidden and annihilated in the eyes of men, a life of sacrifice and seeming inactivity. He added that He would Himself give me the strength to do what He required of me.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'In all your actions purify your intention, renew it several times a day, often repeat: All for the greater glory of God!'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'What an honor God confers on us, when He calls us to travel the same road as His divine Son!'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'When an intellect forgets real knowledge, it fights with men for harmful things as though they were helpful.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'Blessed the one who has become like the Seraphim and the Cherubim and never wearied in his spiritual ministry, unceasingly giving glory to the Lord.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

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'You must practice, at one and the same time, interior and exterior mortification; but with this difference, that you must give yourself up to the first particularly, always, and without exception; to the second, on the contrary, only as far as circumstances and the particular condition of persons and occasions will permit.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola