Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'Remember that even as priests are clothed with the power and authority of God, so too they should be filled with His holiness, love, Charity, and other divine perfections... Truly the priest is another Christ living and walking on earth. Consequently his life should be a perfect image of that of the Savior, or rather a continuation of Our Lord's life.'

St. Jean Eudes

[Shin]

'Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners; for many souls go to hell, because there are none to sacrifice themselves and pray for them.'

The Blessed Virgin, Our Lady of Fatima

[Shin]

'One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'Forgiveness of sins is betokened by freedom from the passions; he who has not yet been granted freedom from the passions has not yet received forgiveness.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'Anyone who does not give up all he has, cannot be my disciple.'

Luke 14:33

[Shin]

'We must, then, persuade ourselves that chastisement is not what the nature of God inclines him to. God, because by his nature he is infinite goodness, says St. Leo, has no other desire than to bless us, and to see us happy. When he punishes, he is obliged to do so in order to satisfy his justice, not to gratify his inclination. Isaiah says that punishment is a work contrary to the heart of God.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'I had the greatest sorrow for the many souls that condemn themselves to Hell, especially those Lutherans. . . I saw souls falling into Hell like snowflakes.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

[Shin]

'If you want to be certain of being in the number of the Elect, strive to be one of the few, not one of the many. And if you would be quite sure of your salvation, strive to be among the fewest of the few; that is to say: do not follow the great majority of mankind, but follow those who enter upon the narrow way, who renounce the world, who give themselves to prayer, and who never relax their efforts by day or night, so that they may attain everlasting blessedness.'

St. Anselm of Canterbury

[Shin]

'Vanity and vain-glory are vices born of ignorance and blind self-love.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'Prayer and communion are not to be made or desired for the sake of the devotion we feel in them, for that is seeking self, and not God; but we must be frequent in both the one and the other in order to become humble, obedient, gentle, and patient. When we see these virtues in a man, then we know that he has really gathered the fruit of prayer and of communion.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'Woe unto you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.'

Isaiah 5:20

[Shin]

'We do not keep an account of the graces which God has given us, but God our Lord keeps an account of them. He has fixed the measure thereof.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'Take as your motto and aspiration in every event and frame of mind, these words of our Lord: "Thy will be done!" adding: "My God I abandon myself to Thee."'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'I cast myself down I know not how, under a certain fig-tree, giving full vent to my tears; and the floods of mine eyes gushed out an acceptable sacrifice to Thee. And, not indeed in these words, yet to this purpose, spake I much unto Thee: and Thou, O Lord, how long? how long, Lord, wilt Thou be angry for ever? Remember not our former iniquities, for I felt that I was held by them. I sent up these sorrowful words: How long, how long, "to-morrow, and tomorrow?" Why not now? why not is there this hour an end to my uncleanness?

So was I speaking and weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when, lo! I heard from a neighbouring house a voice, as of boy or girl, I know not, chanting, and oft repeating, "Take up and read; Take up and read." [tolle, lege; tolle, lege.] Instantly, my countenance altered, I began to think most intently whether children were wont in any kind of play to sing such words: nor could I remember ever to have heard the like. So checking the torrent of my tears, I arose; interpreting it to be no other than a command from God to open the book, and read the first chapter I should find. For I had heard of Antony, that coming in during the reading of the Gospel, he received the admonition, as if what was being read was spoken to him: Go, sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come and follow me: and by such oracle he was forthwith converted unto Thee. Eagerly then I returned to the place where Alypius was sitting; for there had I laid the volume of the Apostle when I arose thence. I seized, opened, and in silence read that section on which my eyes first fell: Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying; but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, in concupiscence. No further would I read; nor needed I: for instantly at the end of this sentence, by a light as it were of serenity infused into my heart, all the darkness of doubt vanished away.'

St. Augustine

[Shin]

'It does not matter how many virtues a man may have, even if they are beyond number and limit. If he has turned from the path of self-accusation, he will never find peace.'

St. Dorotheus

[Shin]

'Since God wishes it - there is nothing to be done. . . Why should you thus torment yourself? Get rid of whatever He shows you to be an obstacle to His love, for His only desire is that you should live stripped of all that is not Himself.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque