'I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.'

St. Albert the Great

'The truly humble man fears only that some honor might be shown him; and if such a thing should happen to him, he is interiorly alarmed and distressed at it; he compares himself with no one, neither his superiors, his inferiors, nor yet with his equals, for he esteems himself the last of all. He despises no one but himself; he desires ardently to be despised by all the world, and sincerely rejoices in contempt. Such a man fears no dishonor, because he loves no honor.'

St. Albert the Great

'Every sin produces blindness; and as sin increases, so does the blindness increase. God is our light; as much, therefore, as the soul withdraws from God, so much the more blind does she become.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

'Thy mouth is the mouth of Christ; therefore thou mayest not -- I speak not of detractions, nor of lies -- thou mayest not open for idle speeches that mouth which should be reserved only for the praises of God and the edification of thy neighbour.'

St. Anselm of Canterbury

'Do not trust in your own righteousness, do not worry about the past, but control your tongue and your stomach.'

St. Anthony of Egypt

'To enjoy interior peace, we must always reserve in our hearts amidst all affairs, as it were, a secret closet, where we are to keep retired within ourselves, and where no business of the world can ever enter.'

St. Antonino Pierozzi

'Let a man consider that God always seeth him from Heaven, that the eye of God beholdeth his works everywhere, and that the angels report them to Him every hour.'

St. Benedict

'Pride displeases Him and humility pleases Him.'

St. Catherine of Siena

'The Lord has said: "But I say unto you, you shall not lust." How then can he live according to God's will who surrenders himself to every desire?'

St. Clement of Alexandria

'As the branch separated from the roots soon loses all life and verdure, so it is with good works which are not united with charity.'

Pope St. Gregory the Great

'A great help to advancement in spiritual life is to have a friend whom you will permit to inform you of your faults.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

'All vices must first be eradicated by the practice of good works in the active life, so that, the mind's eye being purified, one may advance to the contemplation of God in the contemplative life.'

St. Isidore of Seville

'Even if we possess a splendid doctrine, the person who feels condemned by his own conscience remains disgraced.'

St. Jerome

'To abstain from sinful actions is not sufficient for the fulfillment of God's law. The very desire of what is forbidden is evil.'

St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle

'Sin is the executioner of the good God, and the assassin of the soul. It snatches us away from Heaven to precipitate us into Hell. And we love it! What folly! If we thought seriously about it, we should have such a lively horror of sin that we could not commit it.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

'Understand that the mercy of the Saviour is so measureless that it accepts the least ill, the smallest trouble, in payment for the most disquieting of your debts. Nothing, not even a headache, is lost.'

St. Lydwine of Schiedam

'"The iron gate that leads into the city" is a hard heart (Acts 12:10); but to one who suffers hardship and affliction the gate will open of its own accord, as it did to Peter.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

'At a time of affliction, expect a provocation to sensual pleasure; for because it relieves the affliction it is readily welcomed.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

'Do not listen gleefully to gossip at your neighbor's expense or chatter to a person who likes finding fault. Otherwise you will fall away from divine love and find yourself cut off from eternal life.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

'Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.'

St. Padre Pio

'Preserve carefully the sentiments of love with which you are filled after Communion.'

St. Paul of the Cross

'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

'When a person puts himself in an occasion of sin, saying, "I shall not fall, I shall not commit it," it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with all the greater damage to his soul.'

St. Philip Neri

'If those who are molested by scruples wish to know whether they have consented to a suggestion or not, especially in thoughts, they should see whether, during the temptation, they have always had a lively love to the virtue opposed to the vice in respect of which they were tempted, and hatred to that same vice, and this is mostly a good proof that they have not consented.'

St. Philip Neri

'Let your modesty be known to all men: the Lord is nigh.'

Philippians 4:5

'You have forgotten what you are.'

St. Severinus Boethius

'The time has come: you must wake up now.'

Romans 13:11

'For the rest, brethren, whatsoever is true, whatsoever is modest, whatsoever is just, whatsoever is pure, whatsoever is amiable, whatsoever is gracious, if there is any virtue, if there is any discipline worthy of praise, think on these.'

Philippians 4:8


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'Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.'

St. Padre Pio

'The Saints await us; the Angels await us; Mary awaits us; and Jesus stands with the crown in His Hands wherewith to crown us if we shall be faithful to Him.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Thank you all.  I have some new saints  to look up.   :smile:

Have you ever read, 'Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence' MariaCatherine?

http://www.olrl.org/snt_docs/trustful/

Have you ever read, 'Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence' MariaCatherine?

http://www.olrl.org/snt_docs/trustful/

Excellent book! I highly recommend it too!

Have you ever read, 'Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence' MariaCatherine?

http://www.olrl.org/snt_docs/trustful/

No, I haven't. I bookmarked it and look forward to reading it. Thanks for the link.

Maybe the meaning of the word hate as it's used here is the same as the one Our Lord meant when He said that no one who doesn't hate his mother and father and sister and brother is worthy of Him. I understand that to mean no one who doesn't love Him more than anyone or anything isn't worthy of Him. Might that be correct?

I don't fully understand how we can wish to be hated, since it seems to me that it would be wishing others to sin, if for our own good, since it's a sin to hate any particular person. Maybe the best wish is to be forgotten. But even with that wish, if we're really serious about spreading the faith, how could we wish to be forgotten?

Well, it doesn't have to just have one meaning of course, thinking about the possibilities is good for meditation.. thank you for that..

I'm still thinking.. :)

For what little it's worth, I tend to focus about how it's just, in a sense, and I don't think much about the sin of the person.

I suppose one could think about it indirectly too.

Not positive about this but I think it might mean, as in the Bible it states you will be hated for my sake, meaning to me; When you follow Me, (Jesus) the world will hate you, therefore wish to be hated.  

A good thought..

'And then, turning to myself, I say: "When thou hearest thyself named, or listenest to words which perhaps may seem to praise thee, know that they are not spoken of what is thine; for the only virtue and glory thou hast belong to God, and thou hast at least in thine earthly and carnal nature no more conformity with good than has the demon; but when evil is spoken of thee, remember that all could not be said which is in reality true; thou art unworthy even to be called worthless, because to speak of thee at all lends thee a fictitious value."'

St. Catherine of Genoa