Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'Pray in peace and serenity, sing intelligently and in a good state - and you will be like a young eagle soaring high in the sky.'

St. Nilus of Sinai

[Shin]

'Brother Egidius, of the Order of St. Francis, once said to St. Bonaventure: "Happy you, O Father Bonaventure, who are so learned, and who, by your learning, can become more holy than I can, who am a poor ignorant man." "Listen," replied the saint: "if an old woman knows how to love God better than I do, she is more learned and more holy than I am." At hearing this, Brother Egidius exclaimed: "poor old woman! poor old woman! Father Bonaventure says that, if you love God more than he does, you can surpass him in sanctity."'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'God wants me to eat and sleep not as a luxury, but as a necessity and for my humiliation, so that I can see how poor I am to still be needing such worldly things, whereas in heaven there will be no need to eat or sleep. And so I say, "Lord, I do these things because it is your will."'

St. Anthony Mary Claret

[Shin]

'We must not live as if there were no difference between right and wrong, but, to the best of our power, must purify ourselves from indulgence and lust and take care for our soul which must continually be devoted to the Deity alone. For when it is pure and set free from all evil the mind is somehow capable of receiving the power of God and the divine image is set up in it. "And everyone who has this hope in the Lord purifies himself," says the Scripture, "even as he is pure."'

St. Clement of Alexandria

[Shin]

'To all the Magistrates, Consuls, Judges, and Rulers everywhere on earthy and to all to whom this letter shall come, brother Francis, your servant in the Lord, lowly and despised, desiring salvation and peace for all of you.

Behold and consider, for the day of death draweth nigh.

I therefore beseech you with reverence, so far as I may, not to forget the Lord and turn aside from His commandments by reason of the cares and anxieties of this world, which you have.

For all they who forget Him and turn aside from His commandments are cursed, and shall be forgotten of Him: and when the day of death shall come all the things which they thought to have shall be taken away from them; and the greater their wisdom and their power have been in this world, the greater will be the torments they shall suffer in hell.

Wherefore I earnestly advise you, my lords, to put aside all care and anxiety, and to receive with meekness the most holy Body and the most holy Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ in holy remembrance of Him. And pay ye such honour to the Lord among the people committed to you as to make proclamation every evening by messenger or other sign, that praise and thanksgiving be rendered by all the people unto the Lord God Almighty.

But if you do not do this, know that you shall give account thereof before Jesus Christ your Lord God at the day of judgment.'

St. Francis of Assisi

[Shin]

'Do not be double-tongued, saying one thing when your conscience says another. For Scripture places such people under a curse (cf. Ecclus. 28:13).'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'Put faith into practice by thinking on these four truths:

God is always present.
Nothing happens without His permission or outside of His will.
Anything we do to others we do to Him.
All kindness and goodness are in Him.

Live faith with these truths:

Drive out all sin.
Console all grief.
Cast away all listlessness.
Enrich the soul with the life of grace. One day God will say about us: quoniam bene.

How? Union with Jesus and Mary.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

[Shin]

'If you are in the depths of poverty, stripped of all and of self, go and lose yourself in the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He will enrich you and will take delight in clothing you [with His own perfections] if you allow Him to act.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

 

[Therese]

"Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God. Remember you not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way. And then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, him, whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, and in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: That all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity."

(2 Thessalonians 2:3-11)

[CyrilSebastian]

                  The Book of Proverbs: Chapter 16 Verse 1     
                   Man may make plans in his heart,     
                      but what the tongue utters is from the Lord.     
 
                             

[Shin]

'After baptism, continual prayer is necessary to man, in order that he may enter heaven; for though by baptism our sins are remitted, there still remains concupiscence to assail us from within, and the world and the devil to assail us from without.'

St. Thomas Aquinas

[Shin]

I found a note on the previous passage from Proverbs:

It is the part of man to prepare the soul: and of the Lord to govern the tongue.


"It is the part of man: That is, a man should prepare in his heart and soul what he is to say: but after all, it must be the Lord that must govern his tongue, to speak to the purpose. Not that we can think any thing of good without God's grace; but that after we have (with God's grace) thought and prepared within our souls what we would speak, if God does not govern our tongue, we shall not succeed in what we speak."

[Shin]

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

St. Augustine

[James - a humble servant]

I love that quote...........

[Shin]

Just a reminder Cyril and folks, this is a thread for saints' quotes not for others.

[Shin]

'Many souls lament that in their meditations and communions, and in their other most devout exercises, they do not find God. To such St. Teresa said, "Detach thy heart from all creatures, and thou shalt find God."'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori