Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'The pure intellect is occupied either with passion-free conceptual images of human affairs, or with the natural contemplation of things visible or invisible, or with the light of the Holy Trinity.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'When we give ourselves up entirely to His guidance and allow Him to do as He pleases with us, He enables us to make great progress in a short time, almost without our knowing it, except for the struggles in which His grace continually engages our immortified nature.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'No voice can sing, no heart can frame nor can the memory find, a sweeter sound than Jesus' name, the Savior of mankind.'

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

[Shin]

'How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! . . . I would rather be an outcast in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.'

Psalm 83:2,11

[Shin]

'Never belittle the significance of your thoughts, for not one escapes God's notice.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'Tis the duty of man to bend his whole being to this task; the task of remembering, of understandings and of loving the Highest Good. To this idea should every thought and every turn and folding of thy heart be moulded, chased, and formed; to be mindful of God, to understand Him, and to love Him; and thus savingly exhibit and display the dignity of thine origin in that thou wast created to the Image of God.'

St. Anselm of Canterbury

[Shin]

'When a man is reproved for anything, he ought not to take it too much to heart, for we commit a greater fault by our sadness than by the sin for which we are reproved.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'The Lord has created intelligent and noetic beings with a capacity to receive the Spirit and to attain knowledge of Himself; He has brought into existence the senses and sense objects to serve such beings.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'We protest before heaven and earth that our glory is in the cross, that it is the source of all our blessings, our every hope, and that it is that which has crowned every saint.'

St. John Chrysostom

[Shin]

'Blessed the one who manages his possessions in accordance with God's will and has not been condemned by God the Saviour as a lover of money without compassion for his neighbour.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

[Shin]

'Christ's servants, male or female, neither seek nor desire any miracle except to finish their lives virtuously, persevering in that state to which God has called them.'

St. Catherine of Bologna

[Shin]

'Prove yourself a monk, not outwardly, but inwardly, by freeing yourself from the passions.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'A blessing on the man who puts his trust in the Lord, with the Lord for his hope. He is like a tree by the waterside that thrusts its roots to the stream: when the heat comes it feels no alarm, its foliage stays green; it has no worries in a year of drought, and never ceases to bear fruit.'

Jeremias 17:7-8

[Shin]

'We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

[Shin]

'The person who has surrendered himself entirely to sin indulges with enjoyment and pleasure in unnatural and shameful passions - licentiousness, unchastity, greed, hatred, guile and other forms of vice - as though they were natural. The genuine and perfected Christian, on the other hand, with great enjoyment and spiritual pleasure participates effortlessly and without impediment in all the virtues and all the supranatural fruits of the Spirit - love, peace, patient endurance, faith, humility and the entire truly golden galaxy of virtue - as though they were natural.'

St. Symeon Metaphrastis

[Shin]

'Tell me: what would you fain have done were you to die now? Would you have lived in luxury, which usually leads to grievous sins, and be cast into hell, or would you rather have led a poor life, and wing your flight to heaven?'

St. Paul of the Cross