Quote for the Day

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'For young men to make sure of persevering, it is absolutely necessary that they should avoid wicked companions, and be familiar with good ones.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, "surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain" (Ps. 39:6. LXX).'

St. Mark the Ascetic

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'If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.'

St. Isidore of Seville

[Shin]

'Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make His spirit, His devotion, His affections, His desires, and His disposition live and reign there. All our religious exercises should be directed to this end. It is the work which God has given us to do unceasingly.'

St. Jean Eudes

[Shin]

'The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a burning furnace in which our hearts, so cowardly and cold, so faulty and imperfect, are tried and purified as gold in the crucible, in order that they be offered to Him as living victims, wholly immolated and sacrificed to His adorable designs.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'If someone said to you, "I would like to become rich; what must I do?" you would answer him, "You must labor:" Well, in order to get to Heaven, we must suffer.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

[Shin]

'Love ought to consist of deeds more than of words.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'He is the Source of all blessings, and will bestow them wherever the picture of His divine Heart is placed and honored.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'If love is long-suffering and kind (cf. 1 Cor. 13:4), a man who is contentious and malicious clearly alienates himself from love. And he who is alienated from love is alienated from God, for God is love.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'Oh how happy should we be, did we but take as much pains to gain heaven and please God, as worldlings do to heap up riches and perishable goods! By land they venture among thieves and robbers; at sea they expose themselves to the fury of winds and storms; they suffer shipwrecks, and all perils; they attempt all, try all, hazard all but we, in serving so great a master, for so immense a good, are afraid of every contradiction.'

St. Syncletica

[Shin]

'Afflictions are the most certain proofs that God can give us of His love for us.'

St. Vincent de Paul

[Shin]

'He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge repeats with deep conviction the words uttered by the patriarch Abraham when he was granted the manifestation of God: "I am dust and ashes" (Gen. 18:27).'

St. Maximos the Confessor

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'Devotion to the Blessed Virgin is actually necessary, because there is no better means of obtaining God's graces than through His most holy mother.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'Being all members of the same body, with the same head, who is Christ, it is proper that we should have in common the same joys and sorrows.'

Ven. Louis de Granada

[Shin]

'It is as a general rule a bad sign when a man has not a particular feeling of devotion on the chief feasts of the year.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'There is not a finer thing on earth, than to make a virtue of necessity.'

St. Philip Neri