Quote for the Day

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'One of the very best means of obtaining humility, is sincere and frequent confession.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'Have you ever noticed rocks in the sea, beaten by the tempest? A furious wave dashes against the rock, another and yet another does likewise, yet the rock is unmoved. But look at it after the storm has subsided, and you will see that the flood has but served to wash and purify it of the defilement it had contracted during the calm.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'Without mortification nothing can be done.'

St. Philip Neri

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'Blessed the one who keeps vigil in prayers and reading and good work, such a one will become enlightened so that he does not sleep in death.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

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'Do justice, God sees you.'

St. Veronica Guiliani, at the age of one and a half years

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'My children, the saints were so completely dead to themselves, that they cared very little whether others agreed with them. People in the world say, "Oh, the saints were simpletons!" Yes, they were simpletons in worldly things; but in the things of God they were very wise. They understood nothing about worldly matters, to be sure, because they thought them of so little importance that they paid no attention to them.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

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'Ample room in the heart denotes hope in God; congestion denotes bodily care.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'The Word begotten of the Father from on high, inexpressibly, inexplicably, incomprehensibly, and eternally, is He that is born in time here below of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.'

St. Athanasius

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'We have been taught that only they may aim at immortality who have lived a holy and virtuous life near to God. We believe that they who live wickedly and do not repent will be punished in everlasting fire.'

St. Justin Martyr

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'I am full of miseries; however, I hope to save my soul: I hope it of the infinite power and goodness of God; I hope it through the Passion and death of Jesus; I hope it by the intercession of the Mother of Sorrows; yes, I hope to go to heaven.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'They who are engaged with the salvation of their neighbor, will gain more by an humble modesty than by an authoritative manner, and will gain victory sooner in retreat than in combat.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'My lord, for one bishop of your opinion, I have a hundred saints of mine; for one parliament of yours, and God knows of what kind, I have all the General Councils of the Church for a thousand years.'

St. Thomas More

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'Ignorance of words will do no harm to the truly devout, nor will wisdom in speaking harm the humble.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'Let him who finds himself desolate remember how strong he is by grace, which is sufficient to enable him to overcome all his enemies, and that he should take courage in his Lord and Creator.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'We ought not to publish or manifest to every one the inspirations which God sends us, or the favours He grants us. Secretum meum mihi! Secretum meum mihi!'

St. Philip Neri

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'In fact, my children, it is sin that brings upon us all calamities, all scourges, war, famine, pestilence, earthquakes, fires, frost, hail, storms, -- all that afflicts us, all that makes us miserable.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars