Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'Now is the time of a fruitful sowing for eternity, when the harvest will be plentiful. Do not lose courage. Your sufferings endured with patience are worth a thousand times more than any other austerity. This is what God asks of you for the present.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'It suffices not to perform good works; we must do them well, in imitation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it is written, "He doeth all things well."'

St. Vincent de Paul

[Shin]

'No, there is but one thing now that I desire; it is, not to be deprived of my discomforts and pains.'

St. Lydwine of Schiedam

[Shin]

'Every day read a pious book, and avoid bad company as you would Satan. Obey with the greatest exactitude. Obedience is a celestial pearl. Jesus Himself, through obedience, laid down His most holy life on the hard wood of the cross. Charitably compassionate the poor. Be just to all. Humble yourself before everybody, for the love of God.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'True words from a pure conscience betoken unfeigned love.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'A poor man does not seek a bed in order to sleep, he throws himself down anywhere.'

St. Benedict Joseph Labre

[Shin]

'Jesus helps us to face every tribulation. Holy resignation to his sovereign dispositions is the central, pivotal point which balances the weight of the Cross.'

St. Gaspar del Bufalo

[Shin]

'Spiritual reading and prayer purify the intellect, while love and self-control purify the soul's passible aspect.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'I fear that Last Day, that day of tribulation and anguish, of calamity and misery, of mist and darkness, that Day on which, if the just have reason to fear, how much more should I: an impious, wretched, and ungrateful sinner!'

St. Sebastian Valfre

[Shin]

'He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.'

Proverbs 17:15

[Shin]

'How little is required to be a saint! It suffices to do in all things the will of God.'

St. Vincent de Paul

[Shin]

'Seal your senses with stillness and sit in judgment upon the thoughts that attack your heart.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'Hence, apart from that which is taken up for the sake of a salutary repentance or in the pursuit of perfection or out of a desire for things to come, all sadness is to be equally rejected as this-worldly and death-dealing, and it is to be immediately cast out from our hearts, just like the spirit of fornication or avarice or anger.'

St. John Cassian

[Shin]

'The life of the servants of God is a continual death. For you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. I wish you to die this mystical death. We have just celebrated the birth of Our Lord, and I am confident that you are born mystically in Christ daily, more and more; and I desire you to die in Him in a mystical manner, from day to day, more perfectly, and to dissipate, in the abyss of the Divinity, all those little distractions that annoy you.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'The kingdom of God is within you. Reanimate your faith often when you study, work, or eat; when you retire to rest, or rise in the morning. Make some loving aspirations to God, such as: "O Infinite Goodness!" or other prayer, and let your soul be penetrated by these pious sentiments as by a precious balm. This great God is nearer to you, so to speak, than you are to yourself.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him. And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.'

Deuteronomy 32:19-20