Quote for the Day

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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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'You should bring to your praise worthy exercises a holy fervor, because you will feel, even in this life, its good effects, not only in perfecting your souls, but also in the peace of mind you will possess.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'How pure and stainless should be the heart on which is written the most holy name of Jesus!'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'When Our Lord sees pure souls coming to visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament He smiles on them. They come with the simplicity that pleases Him so much.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

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'Sometimes God leaves us for a long time unable to effect any good, that we may learn to humble ourselves, and never to glory in our efforts.'

St. Vincent Ferrer

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'Choose the divine Heart for your sacred oratory, wherein to offer to God your petitions and prayers that may be pleasing to Him.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.'

St. Ambrose of Milan

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'Therefore, they are deceived who come to the service of God believing that they will serve him with sweetness and gentleness of spirit and mental peace, because this is not what God gives to his faithful servants; rather, he invites them to battle, saying: "Whoever wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me" (Mt 16.24). We have an example of this in himself, when he descended from heaven to earth not for repose, but to enter into battle and to receive instead of honor, contempt; instead of rest, fatigue; instead of riches, poverty, instead of sufficiency, hunger and thirst; in short, he suffered so many and so serious wounds that he would have wished to die on the field of battle.'

St. Catherine of Bologna

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'Truth always shines with a brilliancy of its own, whilst falsehood is clouded in darkness, to dispel which it is enough to place it in the presence of truth.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'Begin now. . . Believe me, don't wait until tomorrow to begin becoming a saint.'

St. Therese of Lisieux

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'Although we have received the power to become the children of God (cf. John 1:12), we do not actually attain this sonship unless we strip ourselves of the passions.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

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'Our actions disclose what goes on within us, just as its fruit makes known a tree otherwise unknown to us.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

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'I have chosen thee as an abyss of unworthiness and ignorance for the accomplishment of this great design, so that everything may be done by Me.'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'The whole life of religious Orders depends upon the preservation of their first spirit.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'Imagine yourself seriously indisposed, and that I, who love you tenderly, call to see you. After saying a few words of sympathy and consolation, I should certainly look at you with compassion and, through love of you, make your sufferings my own. Thus when we meditate on the Passion of Christ, seeing Him in such affliction, we ought to compassionate Him, and then to remain looking upon Him in so great torments, and, through compassionate love, make His sufferings our own.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'St. Peter and the other apostles and apostolical men, seeing the Son of God born in poverty, and then living so absolutely without anything, that He had not where to lay His Head, and contemplating Him dead and naked on a cross, stripped themselves also of all things, and took the road of the evangelical counsels.'

St. Philip Neri