Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'The virtues generate good thoughts; the commandments lead us to the virtues; the practice of the virtues depends on our own will and resolution.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'My hope is in Christ, who strengthens the weakest by His Divine help. I can do all in Him who strengthens me. His Power is infinite, and if I lean on him, it will be mine. His Wisdom is infinite, and if I look to Him for counsel, I shall not be deceived. His Goodness is infinite, and if my trust is stayed in Him, I shall not be abandoned.'

Pope St. Pius X

[Shin]

'To obtain the protection of our Blessed Lady in our most urgent wants, it is very useful to say sixty-three times, after the fashion of a Rosary, "Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pray to Jesus for me."'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'One must wage war against his predominant passion, and not retreat, until, with God's help, he has been victorious.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'That great saint, St. Charles Borromeo, had in his apartment a fine cardinal's bed, which everybody saw; but, besides that, there was one which nobody could see, made of bundles of wood; and that was the one he made use of. He never warmed himself; when people came to see him, they remarked that he placed himself so as not to feel the fire. That is what the saints were like. They lived for heaven and not for earth: they were all heavenly; and as for us, we are all earthly.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

[Shin]

'I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'To attain perfection, and to enjoy true peace of conscience, it is necessary to die to the world and to self.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'It is better to accustom ourselves to seek God in everything we do, than to spend a long time in prayer.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'As the breath which comes out of his nostrils, so does a man need humility and the fear of God.'

St. Poemen

[Shin]

'O Jesus you who were forsaken have become the refuge of forsaken souls. Your love teaches me that I must gain the strength I need to endure being abandoned by seeing how you were abandoned. I am persuaded that the most terrible abandonment I could experience would be to have no part in yours. By your death, you gave me life; you delivered me from the suffering I deserved by suffering in my place. Because of what you endured on the cross, our Heavenly Father will not desert me. He is never closer to me through His mercy than when I am most united with you in your abandonment.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

[Shin]

'Dearly beloved, if our heart do not reprehend us, we have confidence towards God: And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.'

1 John 3:21

[Shin]

'Jesus does not want us to be attached to possessions, to human honors, to creatures. He asks humility. But His love and His generosity make this detachment less difficult and less cruel to our nature. Nothing else matters to me anymore, nothing has any value for me but Jesus, no place, no thing, no person, no idea, no feeling, no honor, no suffering, nothing that can turn me away from Jesus. For me, Jesus Himself is my honor, my delight, my heart, my spirit, He whom I love, what I love, my home Heaven here on earth. Jesus is my treasure and my love and Jesus crucified is my only happiness.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

[Shin]

'If you wish to advance in the love of God, speak of it; for pious conversations are to charity what the wind is to the flame.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'We make no progress because we dwell in that exterior learning which puffs up the mind; but these illiterate Egyptians have a true sense of their own weakness, blindness, and insufficiency; and by that very thing they are qualified to labor successfully in the pursuit of virtue.'

St. Arsenius

[Shin]

'"The sea" [Psalm 103:25-26] is this world, full of bitterness, great with riches, wide with delights. Wide is the path that leads to death, but to whom? Not to the poor of Christ who "enter through the narrow gate". Rather to grasping usurers, who have already taken the whole world into their hands.'

St. Anthony of Padua

[Shin]

'Since they are unwilling to be deceived, they are unwilling to be convinced that they have been deceived.

Therefore, they hate the truth for the sake of whatever it is that they love in place of the truth.'

St. Augustine