Quote for the Day

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'The conscience is nature's book. He who applies what he reads there experiences God's help.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'It seems to me that the Divine and Sovereign Goodness wishes to give you in His kingdom a most plentiful and munificent reward for the service you render Him; since for the good deeds for which others receive at least a little consolation in return, even as regards man, you have known only pain and most extraordinary contradictions.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'Worldly people are miserable when they have crosses, and good Christians are miserable when they have none. The Christian lives in the midst of crosses, as the fish lives in the sea.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

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'When you do a good action, have the intention of first pleasing God, and then of giving good example to your neighbor.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'There is no sin nor wrong that gives a man such a foretaste of hell in this life as anger and impatience. It is hated by God, it holds its neighbour in aversion, and has neither knowledge nor desire to bear and forbear with its faults. And whatever is said or done to it, it at once empoisons, and its impulses blow about like a leaf in the wind.'

St. Catherine of Siena

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'First, discover by reflection whether you are occasionally or habitually negligent. Recollect whether the control of your heart is slipshod and haphazard.'

St. Bonaventure

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'Courage then! Finish what you have begun for the sake of this divine Heart, and rest assured that Our Lord will repay you a hundredfold for all that you do for His love.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'We must not be wise according to the flesh. Rather we must be simple, humble and pure.'

St. Francis of Assisi

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'He who wishes to be wise without the true Wisdom, or saved without the Saviour, is not well, but sick - is not wise, but a fool.'

St. Philip Neri

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'You will not see anyone who is really striving after his advancement who is not given to spiritual reading. And as to him who neglects it, the fact will soon be observed by his progress.'

St. Athanasius

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'As all things find rest only in their center and are irresistibly drawn to what is natural to them, even so my heart, wholly absorbed in its center, the humble heart of Jesus, has an unquenchable thirst for humiliations, contempt and oblivion on the part of creatures, and thus I never feel happier than when I am conformed to my crucified Spouse.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'After Antichrist has been slain by lightning on Mount Olivet and his death has been made widely known through out the world, this our earth will exist for forty-five more days; I do not say years, but days. This is clearly to be seen in Daniel (12:11) : "And from the time when the continual sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination of desolation shall be set up, there shall be one thousand, two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh unto the one thousand, three hundred and thirty-five days." The Doctors say that these forty-five days will be given by God for the conversion of those who have been seduced by Antichrist, but Antichrist will have left behind him so great riches and pleasure that hardly any of the nations will be converted to the Faith of Christ. For there is no savior but Christ, and yet they will not be converted.'

St. Vincent Ferrer

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'As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that alms and faith purify from sin.'

St. Poemen

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'We must endeavor to the utmost of our power to enter into the adorable Heart of our Lord by making ourselves very little and humbly confessing our nothingness, thus losing sight of self entirely.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'The wisdom of the Scriptures is learned rather by prayer than by study.'

St. Philip Neri