Quote for the Day

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'Vigilance is rendered necessary and indispensable, not only by the dangers that surround us, but by the delicacy, the extreme difficulty of the work we all have to engage in, the work of our salvation.'

Ven. Louis de Granada

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'When the intellect forgets the purpose of true devotion, then external works of virtue bring no profit.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'It is folly not to think of death. It is greater folly to think of it, and not prepare for it.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'The perfect person does not only try to avoid evil. Nor does he do good for fear of punishment, still less in order to qualify for the hope of a promised reward. The perfect person does good through love. His actions are not motivated by desire for personal benefit, so he does not have personal advantage as his aim. But as soon as he has realized the beauty of doing good, he does it with all his energies and in all that he does. He is not interested in fame, or a good reputation, or a human or divine reward. The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.'

St. Clement of Alexandria

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'Let us learn here below to give God the confession of praise which we ought to hope to give Him in heaven above.'

St. Philip Neri

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'St. Frances of Rome received a buffet from an angel because she did not change the conversation of certain ladies who spoke of worldly vanities.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'There is an energy of grace not understood by beginners, and there is also an energy of evil which resembles the truth. It is advisable not to scrutinize these energies too closely, because one may be led astray, and not to condemn them out of hand, because they may contain some truth, but we should lay everything before God in hope, for He knows what is of value in both of them.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'The words that I have spoken to you, are spirit and life.'

John 6:64

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'If a man accuses himself, he is protected on all sides.'

St. Poemen

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'I never carried money or wanted any. One day I had a shock. I put my hand into my coat pocket and thought I felt a coin. Horrified, I took it out and was much relieved to discover that it wasn't a coin but a medal someone had given me long ago. I felt as if I had come back to life from the dead, so great was the horror I felt for money.'

St. Anthony Mary Claret

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'Go into street and square, into palace and house, into city and countryside, into tribunal and court of law, and even into the temple of God. Where will you find virtue? "Alas!" cries Salvianus, "except for a very little number who flee evil, what is the assembly of Christians if not a sink of vice?" All that we can find everywhere is selfishness, ambition, gluttony, and luxury. Is not the greater portion of men defiled by the vice of impurity, and is not Saint John right in saying, "The whole world - if something so foul may be called - "is seated in wickedness?" I am not the one who is telling you; reason obliges you to believe that out of those who are living so badly, very few are saved.'

St. Leonard of Port Maurice

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'Oh, how I wish that everybody would apply himself to meditation and prayer!'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'To reach the Promised Land you must weep with grief at the thought of the sins you have committed.'

St. Bonaventure

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'By praying for those who wrong us we overthrow the devil; opposing them we are wounded by him.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'Poverty and tribulations are given us by God as trials of our fidelity and virtue, as well as to enrich us with more real and lasting riches in heaven.'

St. Philip Neri

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'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