Quote for the Day

[Shin]

Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.
St. Augustine

A theme of instructive St. Augustine quotes!

'All graces given to those outside the Church are given them for the purpose of bringing them inside the Church.'

St. Augustine

[odhiambo]

This quote is probably posted already but no harm in repeat postings surely 
Here goes:

“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”

Saint Augustine

[Shin]

This quote is probably posted already but no harm in repeat postings surely 
Here goes:

“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”

Saint Augustine

This reminds me of how the gift of faith is a supernatural gift.

[odhiambo]

This reminds me of how the gift of faith is a supernatural gift.

O my God,
 I firmly believe that you are one God in three Divine Persons,
 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
 I believe that your Divine Son became man,
 and died for our sins,
 and that He will come to judge the living and the dead.
 I believe these and all the truths the Holy Catholic Church teaches
 because You have revealed them,
 who can neither deceive nor be deceived.
Amen!

[Shin]

'Oh, if you could but see the mystery of the altar as it really is after the Consecration, you would see Jesus Christ on the Cross, making oblation to His Father of His Wounds, His Blood, His Death, for the salvation of your soul and of the whole world. You would see the angels, who are prostrate around the altar, astonished, almost appaled, at so much love lavished upon indifferent and ungrateful creatures. You would hear the Heavenly Father, as He contemplated His divine Son, speaking to you as He spoke on Tabor: "This is My Beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased; adore Him, love Him, and serve Him with all your heart."'

St. Peter Julian Eymard

[MidnightSun12]

"God is so good that when He sees a sinner running to his ruin, He runs after him, calls him, entreats and accompanies him even to the gates of hell; what will He not do to convert him? He sends him good inspirations and holy thoughts, and if he does not profit from them, He becomes angry and indignant, He pursues him. Will He strike him? No. He beats at the air and forgives him. But the sinner is not converted yet. God sends him a mortal illness. It is certainly all over for him. No, brothers, God heals him; the sinner becomes obstinate in evil, and God in His mercy looks for another way; He gives him another year, and when that year is over, He grants him yet another.

But if the sinner still wants to cast himself into hell in spite of all that, what does God do? Does He abandon him? No. He takes him by the hand; and while he has one foot in hell and the other outside, He still preaches to him, He implored him not to abuse His graces. Now I ask you, if that man is damned, is it not true that he is damned against the Will of God and because he wants to be damned?"

St. Leonard of Port Maurice

[Shin]

A quote that has a fearsomeness to it when one thinks.

[Shin]

'Those who have not yet obtained true prayer of the heart, can find help in violence in bodily prayer -- I mean stretching out the hands, beating the breast, sincere raising of the eyes to heaven, deep sighing, frequent prostrations.'

St. John Climacus

[odhiambo]

"See the Face of God in everyone."
St.Catherine L’aboure

[Shin]

"See the Face of God in everyone."
St.Catherine L’aboure

How wonderful to see God everywhere!

[Shin]

'Without prayer we have neither light nor strength to advance in the way which leads to God.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

Here are three quotes on trees!

'Man is like a tree, bodily asceticism is the foliage, interior vigilance the fruit. According to that which is written, "Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be cut down and cast into the fire" (Matt. 3:10) it is clear that all our care should be directed toward the fruit, that is to say, guard of the spirit; but it needs the protection and the embellishment of the foliage, which is bodily asceticism.'

St. Agathon

'Christ could not have commanded anything more beneficial, for this sacrament is the fruit of the tree of life. Anyone who receives this sacrament with the devotion of sincere faith will never taste death. "It is a tree of life for those who grasp it, and blessed is he who holds it fast. The man who feeds on me shall live on account of me."'

St. Albert the Great

'They slew by nailing to the tree Him who had brought to life their dead, had healed their maimed, had made their lepers clean, had given light to their blind. Behold, you sons of men! behold, all you people, these new wonders! They suspended Him on the tree, who stretches out the earth; they transfixed Him with nails who laid firm the foundation of the world; they circumscribed Him who circumscribed the heavens; they bound Him who absolves sinners; they gave Him vinegar to drink who has made them to drink of righteousness; they fed Him with gall who has offered to them the Bread of Life; they caused corruption to come upon His hands, and feet who healed their hands and feet; they violently closed His eyes who restored sight to them; they gave Him over to the tomb, who raised their dead to life both in the time before His Passion and also while He was hanging on the tree.'

St. Alexander of Alexandria

[Shin]

References to trees, flowers, and Creation and the deeper spiritual meanings, aren't they wonderful together?

And then so unspeakably moving, the tree of the Cross!

[odhiambo]

“It is only by hammer blows
that God manages to humble us,
no matter how good our
native disposition.”


St. Anthony Mary Claret

[Patricia]

 The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.

-- Saint Peter of Alcantara

[Shin]

Two very striking quotes. . .

'Pray and work.'

St. Benedict