Quote for the Day

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'When I placed before Him my humble petitions regarding those things that seem difficult to obtain (concerning the devotion to the Sacred Heart), I seemed to hear these words: "Dost thou believe that I can do this? If thou dost believe thou shall behold the omnipotence of My Heart in the magnificence of My love." As I watch its steady progress I hear those other words: "Did I not indeed tell thee, that if thou couldst believe, thou shouldst see thy desires accomplished?"'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'The servant of God ought to seek knowledge, but never to show it or make a parade of it.'

St. Philip Neri

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'Let him who seeks true humility, employ two means: mental prayer, meditating on the greatness of God, and his own nothingness; vocal prayer, asking it of God, through the merits of Jesus and Mary.'

St. Benedict Joseph Labre

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'Ah! who can realize the sadness of Mary when she returned to Bethany after the burial of her Son?'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'We must watch over ourselves. We must have the most filial confidence in Our Saviour, in our blessed Mother, in the angels and saints; but as for men, we must avoid them: this is the advice of the angel to St. Arsenius. Have courage; be assured that God will never abandon you, but will always assist you and give you what is needful.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'I cannot promise you happiness in this world; only in the next.'

The Blessed Virgin, to St. Bernadette of Lourdes

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'Mary's sorrow was less when she saw her only Son crucified, than it is now at the sight of man offending Him by sin.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'But it was not so much the sorrows of his Passion which saddened and embittered the life of our Redeemer, as the sight of all the sins which men would commit after his death. These were the cruel executioners which made him live in continual agony, oppressed by such an overwhelming grief that pain alone would have been enough to make him die of pure sorrow. Father Lessius says that the sight alone of the ingratitude of mankind would have been sufficient to make Jesus Christ die of grief a thousand times.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'Cultivate a tender devotion to the dolors of Mary, to her Immaculate Conception, to your guardian angel, to your patron saints, and the holy apostles.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'To judge rightly of the goodness and perfection of any one's prayer, it is sufficient to know the disposition he takes to it, and the fruits he reaps from it.'

St. Vincent de Paul

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'Blessed the one who has made his fellow servants glad with spiritual gladness from the fruit of the virtues, which he planted by toiling to give back the fruit of life in the Lord.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

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'Blessed stillness gives birth to blessed children: self-control, love and pure prayer.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

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'It would be the greatest miracle to see God deny His help to those who, for love of Him, have given up everything.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'It is not enough to make profession of a kind of sublime life, if one does not fulfill perfectly all that such a state requires.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'To be a faithful lover of Jesus Christ her spouse, and to preserve unsullied the lily of her purity, a virgin must adopt the necessary means. The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'Grant, O my God, that throughout my life, I may love Thee with true, ardent and persevering love.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque