Quote for the Day

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'Sanctorum vita ceteris norma vivendi est.'

'The life of the saints is the norm of living for others.'

St. Ambrose of Milan

[Shin]

'When God wishes, He becomes fire, burning up every coarse passion that has taken root in the soul. "For our God is a consuming fire" (Dt. 4:24; Heb. 12:29). When He wishes, He becomes an inexpressible and mysterious rest so that the soul may find rest in God's rest. When He wishes, he becomes joy and peace, cherishing and protecting the soul.'

St. Macarius the Great

[Shin]

'Scruples ought to be most carefully avoided, as they disquiet the mind, and make a man melancholy.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'It is a good thing, during the week that follows our communion-day, to do something more than usual; for example, to say five Our Fathers and Hail Maries with our arms extended, or an extra rosary.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.'

St. Philip Neri

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'Sometimes God leaves us for a long time unable to effect any good, that we may learn to humble ourselves, and never to glory in our efforts.'

St. Vincent Ferrer

[Shin]

'Deny your desires and you will find what your heart longs for. For how do you know if any desire of yours is according to God?'

St. John of the Cross

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'I will attempt day by day to break my will into pieces. I want to do God's Holy Will, not my own!'

St. Gabriel Possenti of the Sorrowful Mother

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'Since the light of spiritual knowledge is the intellect's life, and since this light is engendered by love for God, it is rightly said that nothing is greater than divine love (cf. 1 Cor. 13:13).'

St. Maximos the Confessor

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'The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance in the next; the more sorrow in the present, the greater will be our joy in the future.'

St. Isidore of Seville

[Shin]

'The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'Jacob made for Joseph a coat of many colors (cf. Gen. 37:3), and the Lord gives knowledge of truth to the gentle; as it is written, "He will teach the gentle His ways" (Ps. 25:9. LXX).'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'No one can be ignorant of the fact that all the Fathers of the Catholic Church unanimously imposed the inviolable rule of continence on clerics in major orders. The Body of the Lord in the sacrament of the altar is the same as the one carried by the immaculate hands of the Virgin at Bethlehem. To be able to touch It, it is necessary to have pure hands, sanctified by perfect continence.'

St. Peter Damian

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'You should also know the following subterfuge of the demons: at times they divide themselves into groups. Some come with a temptation; and when you ask for help others come in the guise of angels and chase away the first, to make you believe that they are true angels, and fall into vainglory, through having been granted such a thing.'

St. Nilus of Sinai

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'The most evident mark of God's anger is the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world, is manifested when He permits his people to fall into the hands of clergy who are priests more in name than in deed. When God permits such things it is very positive proof that He is thoroughly angry with His people and is visiting His most dreadful anger on them. That is why He cries out unceasingly to Christians, return you rebellious Christians and I will give you pastors according to my own heart.'

St. Jean Eudes

[Shin]

'The sanctity of a man lies in the breadth of three fingers, (the forehead) that is to say, in mortifying the understanding, which would fain reason upon things.'

St. Philip Neri