Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'Pride is an illusion, a lie and a theft. And since it is a truth of faith that we are nothing, he who esteems himself and thinks that he is someone is a seducer who deceives himself.'

St. Jean Eudes

[Shin]

'Seek Him, and rest not until thou hast found Him, whom thy soul desires, hold Him and do not let Him go (Cant. 3, 4).'

The Blessed Virgin, to Ven. Mary of Agreda

[Shin]

'What, am I not sufficient for thee, I Who am thy beginning and thy last end?'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

[Shin]

'Do not compare yourself with weaker men but rather apply yourself to fulfilling the commandment of love. For by comparing yourself with the weak you will fall into the pit of conceit, but by applying yourself to the commandment of love you will reach the height of humility.

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'The grace of perseverance is the most important of all; it crowns all other graces.'

St. Vincent de Paul

[Shin]

'It is good for a man to await the salvation of God in silence.'

Lamentations 3:26

[Shin]

'As for you, let that which you have heard from the beginning, abide in you. If that abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning, you also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father.'

1 John 2:24

[Shin]

'Wisdom is not only to perceive the natural consequence of things, but also to accept as our due the malice of those who wrong us. People who go no further than the first kind of wisdom become proud, whereas those who attain the second become humble.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'Let the rule of thy life be to walk in the light of faith and in the brightness, with which the Omnipotent shall fill and illumine thy soul, and to continue to love, adore and reverence Him, without any cessation or diminution.'

The Blessed Virgin, to Ven. Mary of Agreda

[Shin]

'When the body sins through material things, it has the bodily virtues to teach it self-restraint. Similarly, when the intellect sins through impassioned conceptual images, it has the virtues of the soul to instruct it, so that by seeing things in a pure and dispassionate way, it too may learn self-restraint.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'What we do for ourselves during life is more certain than all the good we expect others to do for us after death.'

Pope St. Gregory the Great

[Shin]

'The trials of life cease to oppress us if we accept them for the love of God.'

Ven. Louis de Granada

[Shin]

'I accept death willingly. He who is guilty of high treason should die; I am guilty, therefore it is just that I die. After a momentary suffering, divine mercy reserves for you endless joy.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'Moreover the strongest support is provided not only to protect the young from evil, but also to rouse them and attract them more easily and gently to the performance of good works. Like the twigs of plants, the young are easily influenced, as long as someone works to change their souls. But if they are allowed to grow hard, we know well that the possibility of one day bending them diminishes a great deal and is sometimes utterly lost.'

St. Joseph Calasanz

[Shin]

'When the door of the steam baths is continually left open, the heat inside rapidly escapes through it; likewise the soul, in its desire to say many things, dissipates its remembrance of God through the door of speech, even though everything it says may be good. Thereafter the intellect, though lacking appropriate ideas, pours out a welter of confused thoughts to anyone it meets, as it no longer has the Holy Spirit to keep its understanding free from fantasy. Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.'

St. Diadochos of Photiki