Quote for the Day

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'The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare the way of our Lord, make straight the paths of our God in the wilderness.'

Isaiah 40:3

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'Unlimited self-denial. Love for and fidelity to Jesus, my Spouse, until death.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

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'This earth is not our country; it is for us a place of passage, from which we shall soon go to the house of eternity. . . The house, then, dear reader, which you inhabit, is not your house; it is a hospital, from which you will soon, and when you least expect, be dislodged. . .'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'Prayer is a pasturage, a field, wherein all the virtues find their nourishment, growth, and strength.'

St. Catherine of Siena

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'If any one thought to sweeten the vast waters of the sea with one drop of fresh water, would he not be justly regarded as a fool? So also the man who thinks or hopes to do any good without the help of God grievously deceives himself. If he claims any good as his own, God will not fail to humble and confound him; such a man could never become the Lord's instrument, nor accomplish great things for His glory.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'Were any one to ask me, no matter at what moment, "Of what are you thinking?" it seems to me I could reply, "God alone occupies my mind."'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. When one asks, "Why should I love God?" he may mean, "What is lovely in God?" or "What shall I gain by loving God?" In either case, the same sufficient cause of love exists, namely, God Himself.'

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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The Incarnation sprang from the goodness of God.  The humility of this mystery is amazing, marvelous, astonishing.  It shines forth with a dazzling brilliance.  Bl Charles de Foucauld cited in 2016 Word Among Us Prayer Journal

[Shin]

'No single virtue by itself opens the door of our nature; but all the virtues must be linked together in the correct sequence.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'O my brethren, so long as ye have breath in your bodies strive for your redemption; and before there cometh the hour wherein we shall have to weep for our souls let us cultivate spiritual excellence with a ready mind. And I say unto you that, if ye knew what good things were in heaven, and the glory which is laid up for the saints, and how those who have fallen are punished by God, and the tortures which are laid up for those who have been neglectful, and especially for those who having known the truth have not, as was right, guided themselves hereby, instead of inheriting the blessedness which is reserved for the saints, [ye would do so].'

St. Pachomius

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'Wretch that I am! Oh, most unhappy! Why did I not know my Lord sooner? Why was I so deaf to His calls?'

St. Camillus de Lellis

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'Oh, what can I say of the precious and divine treasure that our great God has hidden in suffering?'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'Go to Confession with humility and devotion. . . if it is possible, every time that you go to Holy Communion, even though you do not feel in your conscience any remorse of mortal sin.'

St. Francis de Sales

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'Blessed the one who heart has blossomed like a palm tree by rightness of faith and has not been thrust out, as by thorns, by the heresy of the faithless and impious.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

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'Besides pardoning those who persecute us, we ought to feel pity for the delusion they are labouring under.'

St. Philip Neri

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'It is first of all necessary to purify carefully the hidden recesses of our heart. For that which we desire to gain by bodily purity we must possess in the depths of our conscience, where the Lord resides as judge and superintendent of the games He carefully observes how we run and fight. Thus those things which we are loathe to admit in the open will not even take shape in our interior and we will not even be soiled by any secret connivance. For although it might escape the notice of men, it cannot lie hidden from the knowledge of Almighty God and the holy angels, from whom no secret is hidden.'

St. John Cassian