Quote for the Day

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'To misuse conceptual images and material things is to use them in a profane and improper manner.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'It was right for the woman to be made from a rib of man.

First, to signify the social union of man and woman, for the woman should neither "use authority over man," [1 Tim 2:12] and so she was not made from his head; nor was it right for her to be subject to man's contempt as his slave, and so she was not made from his feet.

Secondly, for the sacramental signification; for from the side of Christ sleeping on the Cross the Sacraments flowed -- namely, blood and water -- on which the Church was established.'

St. Thomas Aquinas

[Shin]

'Do not evil so that good may come!'

Pope St. Pius V

[Shin]

'An intelligent use of conceptual images and their corresponding physical objects produces self-restraint, love and spiritual knowledge; an unintelligent use produces licentiousness, hatred and ignorance.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'You know what you have to do. Correspond faithfully, joyfully and willingly to the lights He gives you.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'When you observe some thought suggesting that you seek human fame, you can be sure it will bring you disgrace.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'A single bad book will be sufficient to cause the destruction of an entire monastery.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'Everyone receives what he deserves in accordance with his inner state. But only God understands the many different ways in which this happens.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'Love the Sacred Heart ardently and It will help you to overcome yourself, to humble yourself, and to detach yourself from creatures and from self.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'I therefore, yet not I, but the love of Jesus Christ, entreat you that you use Christian nourishment only, and abstain from herbage of a different kind; I mean heresy. For those [that are given to this] mix up Jesus Christ with their own poison, speaking things which are unworthy of credit, like those who administer a deadly drug in sweet wine, which he who is ignorant of does greadily take, with a fatal pleasure leading to his own death.'

St. Ignatius of Antioch

[Shin]

'By wishing to do too much, we often spoil everything, constraining our Lord to leave us to act alone and withdraw from us in sorrow.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'Let every one stay at home, that is, within himself, and sit in judgment on his own actions, without going abroad to investigate and criticise those of others.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'If you persevere in reciting the Rosary, this will be a most probable sign of your eternal salvation.'

Bl. Alan de la Roche

[Shin]

'Since the soul is more noble than the body and God incomparably more noble than the world created by Him, he who values the body more than the soul and the world created by God more than the Creator Himself is simply a worshipper of idols.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'The benefits to be derived from spiritual reading do not merely consist in impressing on the memory the precepts set forth, but in opening the heart to them, that they may bear fruit.'

St. Louis de Blois

[Shin]

'These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world.'

John 16:33