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Offline Gray2023

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Saint quotes on meekness
« on: May 02, 2025, 11:30:49 AM »
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    • Prayer well made gives much pleasure to the Angels, and therefore it is much assisted by them; it gives great displeasure to the devils, and therefore is much persecuted and disturbed by them.----St. John Chrysostom
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    1 Corinthians: Chapter 13 "4 Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up; 5 Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;"

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    Re: Saint quotes on meekness
    « Reply #1 on: May 03, 2025, 09:32:26 PM »
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    • Souls that have no habit of prayer are like a lame and paralytic body, which, though it has hands and feet, cannot use them. Therefore, to abandon prayer seems to me the same thing as to lose the straight road; for as prayer is the gate through which all the graces of God come to us, when this is closed, I do not know how we can have any.----St. Teresa
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    Re: Saint quotes on meekness
    « Reply #2 on: May 05, 2025, 05:51:13 AM »
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    • A man of prayer is capable of everything; therefore, it is of great importance that missionaries should give themselves to this exercise with particular earnestness; and as without it they will gain little or no fruit, so with its help they will become much more able to move hearts and convert souls to their Creator, than by learning and oratorical skill.----St. Vincent de Paul
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    Re: Saint quotes on meekness
    « Reply #3 on: May 06, 2025, 08:01:32 PM »
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    • When we have to speak to others on spiritual matters, we ought first to speak of them to God in prayer, and empty ourselves of our own spirit, that we may be filled with the Holy Spirit, which alone illuminates the mind and inflames the will. Superiors, especially, should do this, and endeavor to have continual communication with God, having recourse to Him not only in doubtful and difficult cases but in everything that occurs, to learn immediately from Him what they are to teach others, in imitation of Moses, who announced to the people only what the Lord had previously taught him. Haec dicit Dominus----Thus saith the Lord.----St. Vincent de Paul
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    Re: Saint quotes on meekness
    « Reply #4 on: May 06, 2025, 10:41:42 PM »
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    • Those are wonderful quotes.  Thank you.  For those who might not know, but who listen to audio books, Humility of Heart is on Audible, as are quite a few invaluable classics.
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    "Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is all man."

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    Re: Saint quotes on meekness
    « Reply #5 on: May 10, 2025, 08:03:34 PM »
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    • Souls but little confirmed in piety advance well and happily when the Lord gives them consolations in prayer. But if He afterwards deprives them of these, they immediately become languid and discontented, like children who thank their mother when she gives them sweet things and cry when she takes them away, because they are children, and do not know that a long course of such things is hurtful to them and causes worms. Sensible consolations of the soul often produce the worm of self-satisfaction and that of pride, which is the poison of the soul, and corrupts every good work. This is the reason why the Lord, who gives them to us at first to encourage us, afterwards takes them away that they might not hurt us, and therefore merits no less thanks in taking them away than in giving them.----St. Francis de Sales
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