Quote for the Day

[odhiambo]

"Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him" 
Padre Pio

[odhiambo]

He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.
St. John of the Cross

[odhiambo]

He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.
St. John of the Cross

Some Catholics are shy of making the Sign of the Cross in public.
We pray for boldness in such circumstances.

[Shin]

 

[Shin]

'If there is anyone who is not enlightened by this sublime magnificence of created things, he is blind. If there is anyone who, seeing all these works of God, does not praise Him, he is dumb; if there is anyone who, from so many signs, cannot perceive God, that man is foolish. . . In everything, whether it is a thing sensed or a thing known, God Himself is hidden within.'

St. Bonaventure

[odhiambo]

“No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.”

Saint Cyprian of Carthage

[odhiambo]

“The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today”
 St. Francis of Assisi

[Shin]

'Begin in the morning, before leaving your room, by meditating, for a quarter of an hour, on the Passion of our Redeemer, and you will see that, all will go well with you, and that you will live far removed from sin.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'In our own day every man takes the greatest pains to train his boy in the arts and in literature and speech. But to exercise this child’s soul in virtue, to that no man any longer pays heed. I shall not cease exhorting and begging and supplicating you before all else to discipline your sons from the first. If thou dost care for thy son, show it thus, and in other ways too thou wilt have thy reward.'

St. John Chrysostom

[Shin]

'It seems to me that I am awaiting a thousand years the happiness of going to my God, my supreme good.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'It is God's love for us whence flows all the bitterness as well as all the sweets of this life.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[odhiambo]

"Lord, if this is how you treat your friends, no wonder there are so few of them."
St. Teresa of Avila

[odhiambo]

Did St. Teresa of Avila really say:

"From silly devotions and sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us!"?

[odhiambo]

"Since Christ Himself has said, "This is My Body" who shall dare to doubt that It is His Body?"
St. Cyril of Jerusalem

[Shin]

Amen.

'As for crosses, be assured that if we work with an upright spirit, they will facilitate our road to Heaven.'

St. Gaspar

I don't know of an original source for that quote that's attributed to her, perhaps someone can find it. I'm a little too busy at the moment to try to track it down any further. I think that, if it is genuine, it would be often misunderstood or taken out of context.

[Paul]

This is one I keep trying to work on:

"Be hostile to admitting into your soul things that of themselves have no spiritual substance, lest they make you lose your liking for devotion and recollection."

St. John of the Cross