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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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    Re: Saint quotes on meekness
    « Reply #6 on: May 13, 2025, 08:55:00 AM »
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    • There is another thing which greatly afflicts those who give themselves to prayer. It is the distractions which often come and carry their thoughts, and their hearts too, hither and thither. They come at times from the immortification of the senses; at times with the soul being distracted in itself, and often because the Lord wills it, to try His servants. Now in such cases we must recall our thoughts from time to time, by reviving our faith in the presence of God, and by remaining before Him with reverence and respect. If we do not succeed in fixing them on the prescribed point, we must bear those annoyances and vexations with humility and patience. It will not be lost time, as at first sight it may appear, but such a prayer will sometimes be more fruitful than many others made with recollection and pleasure. For all the actions performed to banish or to endure these distractions, as they are done in order not to displease God, and to become better qualified for His service, are so many acts of the love of God.----St. Teresa
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    Re: Saint quotes on meekness
    « Reply #7 on: May 14, 2025, 08:24:26 AM »
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    • The whole aim of whoever intends to give himself to prayer ought to be to labor, to resolve, to dispose himself, with all possible diligence, to conform his will to that of God. For in this consists all the highest perfection that can be acquired in the spiritual way.----St. Teresa
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    Re: Saint quotes on meekness
    « Reply #8 on: May 15, 2025, 06:41:53 PM »
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    • Prayer ought to be humble, fervent, resigned, persevering and accompanied with great reverence. One should consider that he stands in the presence of a God, and speaks with a Lord before whom the Angels tremble from awe and fear.----St. Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi
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    Re: Saint quotes on meekness
    « Reply #9 on: May 16, 2025, 09:14:40 AM »
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    • Try to disengage yourself from so many cares, and take a little time to think of God and to rest in Him. Enter into the secret chamber of your heart, and banish from it everything save your Creator alone and what can help you to find Him; then having closed the door, say to Him, with all your soul: "Lord, I seek Thy Divine countenance----teach me to find it!"----St. Augustine
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    Re: Saint quotes on meekness
    « Reply #10 on: May 17, 2025, 08:53:10 PM »
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    • Those who can shut themselves up in this little heaven of the soul, where He dwells who has created Heaven and earth, may believe that they are walking in an excellent way, and that they shall not fail to drink of the water of the fountain, for in a little time they will make great progress.----St. Teresa
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    Re: Saint quotes on meekness
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    • In prayer it is well to occupy ourselves sometimes in making acts of praise and love to God; in desires and resolutions to please Him in all things; in rejoicing at His goodness and that He is what He is; in desiring His honor and glory; in recommending ourselves to His mercy; also in simply placing ourselves before Him, beholding His greatness and His mercy, and, at the same time, our own vileness and misery, and then to let Him give us what He pleases, whether it be showers or aridity; for He knows better than we what is most suitable for us. These acts do much to arouse the will and the affections. Be careful, when these sentiments come, not to leave them for the sake of finishing the ordinary meditation. For, to profit greatly in this course, the chief point is not to think much, but to love much. Therefore, whatever will arouse you to love, do it.----St. Teresa
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    Re: Saint quotes on meekness
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    • :confused: Who downthumbs St. Teresa, St. Francis de Sales, and “Gladius” for thanking Gray and recommending a book?  Let’s hope these are mistakes! 

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    Re: Saint quotes on meekness
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    • Quote from: Seraphina on Yesterday at 12:50:41 PM
    :confused: Who downthumbs St. Teresa, St. Francis de Sales, and “Gladius” for thanking Gray and recommending a book?  Let’s hope these are mistakes!
    A person who has a grudge.  Unless they specifically say why they down thumbed me, I just don't care anymore.  I will just pray for them.
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    Re: Saint quotes on meekness
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    • It is well to imagine sometimes in prayer that insults or affronts are inflicted upon us, or that misfortunes fall upon us, and then to strive to accustom our hearts to pardon them and bear them all with patience, in imitation of our Saviour; for in this, much spiritual strength is gained.----St. Philip Neri
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