Quote for the Day

[Shin]

For all I know that was the deeper and true meaning of it! 

[odhiambo]

Thank you both.

[odhiambo]

'Salvation is necessary, because there is no middle way - we must either be saved or lost. It will not do to say: I shall be satisfied with not going to hell; I shall not be concerned at being deprived of heaven. No; either heaven or hell; either forever happy with God in heaven in an ocean of delights, or forever trampled upon by devils in hell in an ocean of fire and torments: either saved, or lost; there is no alternative.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[odhiambo]

'Salvation is necessary, because there is no middle way - we must either be saved or lost. It will not do to say: I shall be satisfied with not going to hell; I shall not be concerned at being deprived of heaven. No; either heaven or hell; either forever happy with God in heaven in an ocean of delights, or forever trampled upon by devils in hell in an ocean of fire and torments: either saved, or lost; there is no alternative.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Stark indeed!
Gives me the shivers!
Lord have mercy on us!

[Shin]

It's like a towering white stone cliff..

[Shin]

'For oftentimes by reason of their own sins the tongue of preachers is tied, oftentimes on the other hand it is because of the sins of their people that the gift of eloquence is withheld from pastors. By reason of their own sins the tongue of preachers is tied, according to the words of the Psalmist, "But to the sinner God hath said, Why dost thou declare My justices?" (Ps. xlix. 16.) And again, the voice of preachers is hindered because of the sins of the people, according to the words of the Lord to Ezechiel: "I will make thy tongue stick fast to the roof of thy mouth, and thou shalt be dumb, and not as a man that reproveth, because they are a provoking house" (Ezec. iii. 26).

As though He said expressly: The gift of eloquence is withdrawn from thee, because while the people offend Me by their sins they are not worthy to have the truth preached to them. Through whose fault it is that speech is with drawn from the preacher is no easy matter to decide. But that the silence of the pastor is hurtful to himself sometimes, and to his flock at all times, is beyond all doubt.

But if we cannot preach as efficiently as we ought, would that by innocence of life we held the rank that befits our office. For the Gospel adds, "Behold I send you as lambs among wolves."'

Pope St. Gregory the Great

[odhiambo]

"I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this benefit: I was able to refute them for myself and loathe them even more.”
Eusebius of Caesarea.
The Church History

[odhiambo]

"Never forget that it is at the beginning of each day that God has the necessary grace for the day ready for us.
  He knows exactly what opportunities we shall have to sin...and will give us everything we need if we ask him then.
 That is why the Devil does all he can to prevent us from saying our Morning Prayers or to make us say them badly."

The Cure' of Ars, St. Jean Vianney

[odhiambo]

"We are born to love, we live to love and we will die to love still more" 
   St. Joseph Cafasso

[Shin]

"Never forget that it is at the beginning of each day that God has the necessary grace for the day ready for us.
  He knows exactly what opportunities we shall have to sin...and will give us everything we need if we ask him then.
 That is why the Devil does all he can to prevent us from saying our Morning Prayers or to make us say them badly."

The Cure' of Ars, St. Jean Vianney

It makes me think of how one has to keep a pure intention and be ready to do things differently to improve one's habits!!

[odhiambo]

Nothing is anything more to me;
 everything is nothing to me, but Jesus:
 neither things nor persons, neither ideas nor emotions,
 neither honor nor sufferings.
Jesus is for me honor, delight, heart and soul.

 Saint Bernadette

[odhiambo]

“No one heals himself by wounding another.”

Saint Ambrose

[Shin]

There's one to think about.

[odhiambo]

There goes "lex talionis" out the window.

[George]

All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God's brilliance, and these sparks emerge from God like the rays of the sun. If God did not give off these sparks, how would the divine flame become fully visible?
St. Hildegard of Bingen

[Shin]

Well now, justice is still justice.