Quote for the Day

[odhiambo]

There is no such thing as bad weather. All weather is good because it is God's.
Saint Teresa of Avila

This is what Shin always says! 

We will now join him and start reminding ourselves and  others of the same whenever it rains cats and dogs 

[Shin]

Haha, I don't mind the rain, it's when it's too hot that I have to really work at saying it! 

[odhiambo]

We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
Saint Francis de Sales

[Shin]

What a nice turn of phrase!

[odhiambo]

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.
Saint Francis de Sales

[odhiambo]

Have you noticed Shin how the Saints all but say the same thing but in different words?

[Shin]

Yes I have.

[odhiambo]

“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
Saint Augustine

[Shin]

And pride that makes them as devils!

[odhiambo]

And pride that makes them as devils!

Sadly yes 

[odhiambo]

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine

[Shin]

It reminds me of 'what you do for the least' . . .

A cup of water. . .

'"Like a tree planted by streams of water," [Ps. 1:3] the soul is irrigated by the Holy Scriptures and acquires vigour, produces tasty fruit, namely, true faith, and is beautified with a thousand green leaves, namely, actions that please God.'

St. John of Damascus

[odhiambo]

It reminds me of 'what you do for the least' . . .
A cup of water. . .

'"Like a tree planted by streams of water," [Ps. 1:3] the soul is irrigated by the Holy Scriptures and acquires vigour, produces tasty fruit, namely, true faith, and is beautified with a thousand green leaves, namely, actions that please God.'
St. John of Damascus

Thought provoking 

[odhiambo]

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.
Saint Francis de Sales

[odhiambo]

The following is now as well known as the Saint himself 
Ever Ancient, Ever New
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would have not been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you. I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more. You touched me, and I burned for your peace.
from The Confessions of Saint Augustine

[Shin]

'All men are made in God's image; but to be in His likeness is granted only to those who through great love have brought their own freedom into subjection to God. For only when we do not belong to ourselves do we become like Him who through love has reconciled us to Himself. No one achieves this unless he persuades his soul not to be distracted by the false glitter of this life.'

St. Diadochos of Photiki