Quote for the Day

[Shin]

The bitter becomes sweet and the sweet becomes bitter! The conversion of life of a sinner! 

[Shin]

'Resignation is all in all to the sick man; he ought to say to God, "Lord, if You want me, here I am, although I have never done any good: do with me what You will.'"

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'They who pass to eternity with the greatest merits shall receive the greatest reward. It is on this account that the Lord sends us tribulations. Virtues, which are the fountains of merits, are practised only by acts. They who have the most frequent occasions of annoyance make the most frequent acts of patience; they who are most frequently insulted make most frequent acts of meekness.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'To you however, my daughter, I would teach a deeper humility, for that of which I have been speaking is almost more truly to be called worldly wisdom than humility. There are some persons who dare not or will not think about the graces with which God has endowed them, fearing lest they should become self-complacent and vain-glorious; but they are quite wrong. For if, as the Angelic Doctor says, the real way of attaining to the Love of God is by a careful consideration of all His benefits given to us, then the better we realise these the more we shall love Him; and inasmuch as individual gifts are more acceptable than general gifts, so they ought to be more specially dwelt upon. Of a truth, nothing so tends to humble us before the Mercy of God as the multitude of His gifts to us; just as nothing so tends to humble us before His Justice as the multitude of our misdeeds. Let us consider what He has done for us, and what we have done contrary to His Will, and as we review our sins in detail, so let us review His Grace in the same. There is no fear that a perception of what He has given you will puff you up, so long as you keep steadily in mind that whatever is good in you is not of yourself.'

St. Francis de Sales

I have to be careful about this mistake! Gratitude is so important to everything! 

[Shin]

'Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.'

St. John Chrysostom

[Shin]

'The proof of our want of love and of our great coldness is the attraction which worldly goods possess for us.'

St. Bonaventure

[Shin]

'Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth is to suppress it; and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage them.'

Pope St. Felix III

How many dogs there are that don't bark today, but only wag their tails!

 

[Patricia]

If you oppose error you are frowned upon.

[George]

If you oppose error you are frowned upon.

and mocked and disregarded.
Oh Lord give us strength!

[George]

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
St. Francis of Assisi

There is no place for selfishness, and no place for fear!
Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands.
Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice.
Pope John Paul II

[Shin]

If you oppose error you are frowned upon.

and mocked and disregarded.
Oh Lord give us strength!

Truly we are going to need it to love to be treated as He was! Strength and love!

Rather than silence an ambiguity!

[George]

God is Love, we eventually have to ask ourselves the question: Why was Love nailed to a cross?
Pope John Paul II

[odhiambo]

"It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up."

St. Augustine

[Patricia]

 When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.

-- Saint John Vianney

[odhiambo]

"The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful."

Pope St. Pius X

[MidnightSun12]

“For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

[odhiambo]

“For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

So very true!