Quote for the Day

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'Blessed the one who has become a good husbandman of the virtues and planted a spiritual vine, plucked the grapes and filled his presses with fruits of life in the Lord.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

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'How wonderful are the treasures which are enclosed in the divine Eucharist!'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'Behold the King of heaven, who, hanging on that gibbet, is now on the point of giving up the ghost. Let us, too, ask of him, with the prophet: What are those wounds in the middle of Thy hands? Tell me, O my Jesus, what are these wounds in the middle of Thy hands? The Abbot Rupert makes answer for Jesus: "They are the memorials of charity, the price of redemption." They are tokens, says the Redeemer, of the great love which I bear towards you; they are the payment by which I set you free from the hands of your enemies, and from eternal death.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'Divine love suffices to prevent us from willfully doing anything which could displease the Beloved of our souls. Indeed, I cannot understand how a heart that belongs to God and truly wishes to love Him, can deliberately offend Him.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'Brethren and fathers, at Christ's resurrection creation too, putting away its winter gloom, like a deadness puts out fresh shoots and as it were comes to life again. And yes, we see the earth wearing green, the plants flourishing, the animals skipping around, the sea tamed and everything being changed for the better.

But I must explain why I have said this. If inanimate and irrational creatures are made radiant and lovely by the resplendent resurrection, how much more ought we, who have been honoured with reason and the image of God, make ourselves bright by our life and give off sweet fragrance by the spirit. For one who strives after virtue is truly the sweet fragrance of Christ, and the Apostle bears witness to this when he says, For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ for God among those who are being saved and those who are perishing, for the latter a scent of death leading to death, for the former an scent of life leading to life [2 Cor. 2,15-16].

St. Theodore the Studite

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'If you take little account of yourself, you will have peace, wherever you live.'

St. Poemen

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'Deeper spiritual knowledge helps the hard-hearted man: for unless he has fear, he refuses to accept the labor of repentance.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

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'Thanks be to God, I am poor in every respect, and I desire to be rich only in the pure love of His sufferings and humiliations: Jesus, His love and His cross constitute all the happiness of life.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'He who relies on theoretical knowledge alone is not yet a faithful servant: a faithful servant is one who expresses his faith in Christ through obedience to His commandments.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'Brethren and fathers, God, who fashioned us and brought us out of non-existence into being, has placed us in this life as in a schoolroom to learn to gospel of his kingdom.'

St. Theodore the Studite

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'Contemplate sensible objects noetically and you will raise your sense-perception above the realm of such objects.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

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'Not only the heavens, but the sight of a blade of grass, or of the most insignificant thing, suffices to inflame with love of God the heart that knows Him.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'The shortest, yea, the only way to reach sanctity, is to conceive a horror for all that the world loves and values.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'In all your doubts and anxieties, think of Mary, call upon her name.'

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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'We must not be wise according to the flesh. Rather we must be simple, humble and pure.'

St. Francis of Assisi