Quote for the Day

[odhiambo]

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.


St. Jerome

[Shin]

A number of quotes about how the exterior must be as the interior.. How true it is that we must show forth our Christianity in deeds, in garments, in all our lives.

'He who suffers injustice escapes sin, finding help in proportion to his affliction.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[odhiambo]

Contemplation is nothing else than a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.
St. John of the Cross

[Shin]

Prayer comes from God, yes.  . .

It makes one think.

[Shin]

How are you doing today, odhiambo? 

[odhiambo]

How are you doing today, odhiambo? 

I am well Shin.
After work today I go to my parish for a bible study group. First day today. We had started it last year I think but it came to naught and the study was terminated. Hope this time it will continue.

[Joan123]

Dear All,

I am Joan123 and I am new to this forum.  I would like to share a
St. Anthony Mary Claret quote with you.  It is very possible that
he led me to this forum, because it was through a web search
on St. Anselm's Seven Degrees of Humility that I found the Saints' Works group.

"It is only by hammer blows that God manages
to humble us, no matter how good our native disposition"
 
~Saint Anthony Mary Claret
Feast Day October 24, 2012

[Shin]

Welcome Joan!

I hope and pray you have a wonderful time here. It really is great for one's prayer life to have the prayers and quotes of the saints for food for thought and meditation, and then to hear each other's thoughts on them.

I am glad to see you! Welcome!

I think that, we are so set in our ways, it is so easy to get caught up in the same old routines -- even though we know we should do better -- we need to do better. How else can we be shaken out of our complacency but by the intervention of God, in ways that are not pleasant, but which stir us into action again!

I know well I am the type that is too often easily set in my ways, and hard to stir up. God help me! God help me!

May the good Lord and the prayers of the saints help us all to change our lives!  

May St. Anthony and St. Anselm please pray for us before God.

[Shin]

'Courage my good cousin! Soon we shall see it, our beautiful heaven. Soon there will be no more cross for us! What divine bliss! To see that good Jesus Who has loved us so much and Who will make us so happy!'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney

[odhiambo]

He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
St. Alphonsus Liguori

[Shin]

He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
St. Alphonsus Liguori

That's the truth!

[Shin]

'Is not it with justice, then, that He turns away from us and chastises us, since in everything He is offering us Himself, and we are resisting Him? This is clear to all. "For," He says, "if you wish  to adorn yourself you have My adornment, or to arm yourself you have My arms, or to dress yourself you have My clothing, or to eat you have My table, or to walk you have My road, or to inherit you have My inheritance, or to go into your own country you have that city of which I am the Builder and the Architect, or to build a house you have My tents. I do not demand of you a reward for the things which I give, but I owe reward to you besides for that reward if you are willing to make use of all that is Mine." What could equal this munificence?'

St. John Chrysostom

[odhiambo]

Shin, hi!
There was either a comment you made or a quotation you posted either on this thread or on the Saints's thread.
I have wanted to refer to it this past few days but cannot find it.
It was about bodily functions and not calling a spade a spade, not your words of course, that is me, how I understood it. Could you post it again please. I want to use it to support my argument at another forum.
Thanks.

[Shin]

Perhaps it was from the modesty section?

'It is never appropriate to speak about the parts of the body that must always be kept hidden and about certain bodily necessities to which nature has subjected all of us or even to name them. If sometimes you cannot avoid this in the case of a sick person or someone who is indisposed, do so in such a courteous manner that the terms you use cannot offend against decorum.'

St. Jean Baptist de la Salle

[Shin]

The link has further quotes along that theme. It seems that few people understand this today.

Though I do not quite understand how people do not understand. 

[odhiambo]

'It is never appropriate to speak about the parts of the body that must always be kept hidden and about certain bodily necessities to which nature has subjected all of us or even to name them. If sometimes you cannot avoid this in the case of a sick person or someone who is indisposed, do so in such a courteous manner that the terms you use cannot offend against decorum.'

St. Jean Baptist de la Salle

This is it; this is the quote.
Thanks