Quote for the Day

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'Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'If we love this sovereign Good and forget ourselves, all will be well.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'At this sacred banquet contemplate the divine Child, trembling with cold, which He suffered that He might enkindle in our hearts the flames of divine love. Ah! ponder attentively this grand mystery. Consider the inconveniences, the cold, the poverty, the absence of all comforts which Jesus, Mary, and Joseph endured; and I hope that, through the goodness of God, you will form the generous resolution of becoming great saints by the faithful imitation of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'You wish to reform the world: reform yourself, otherwise your efforts will be in vain.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'Since God Himself is all greatness, He takes pleasure in lowering His greatness to our littleness, that He may be glorified in our infirmity.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'This is why he made you to be head of the wife. This is why Paul gave the order: "If wives wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home", so that you, like a teacher, a guardian, a patron, might urge her to godliness.'

St. John Chrysostom

[Shin]

'When the intellect, having grown to full maturity in the Lord, wrenches the soul from long-continued prepossession, the heart suffers torments as if on the rack, since intellect and passion drag it in opposite directions.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'Enlighten me, O Lord! and make known to me what I must do to be saved, for with Thy help I will do all that Thou requirest of me.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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'If you succeed in bringing a single soul to heaven, what charity! what a gain! what glory to God!'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'Prayer is a pasturage, a field, wherein all the virtues find their nourishment, growth, and strength.'

St. Catherine of Siena

[Shin]

'Put evil to death so that you will not rise up dead and thus pass from a minor to a major death.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'One of the most excellent means of obtaining perseverance is discretion; we must not wish to do everything at once, or become a saint in four days.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'Blessed the one who observes with spiritual understanding the choirs of stars shining with glory and the beauty of the heavens and longs to contemplate the Maker of all things.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

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'It would be preferable to suffer all the possible torments of Earth until the Judgment Day than pass one day in Purgatory.'

St. Cyril of Alexandria

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'Like Jesus we will say: 'It was truly necessary for suffering to try us and bring us to glory'.'

St. Therese of Lisieux

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'If you want your sins to be "covered" by the Lord (cf. Ps. 32:1), do not display your virtues to others. For whatever we do with our virtues, God will also do with our sins.'

St. Mark the Ascetic