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Title: Saint quotes
Post by: Emile on February 16, 2021, 11:40:42 PM
I was thinking that people could post short quotes by Saints here to help us keep our focus, especially now that it's Lent.

"If ever you have a fit of sadness or trouble, remember that it is because you are still attached to life, or health, or some comfort, or person, or thing that you ought to forget and despise, that you may desire Jesus Christ only." - St. Claude de la Colombiere
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Post by: MaryJK on February 17, 2021, 03:40:54 AM
My husband and I are texting each other this very thing you posted for Lent. Thank you. I will be sending him everything that gets posted here starting with yours.

"Accustom yourself in all that you do to act and speak gently and quietly, and you will see that in a short time you will completely control that abrupt impulsiveness." 
- Saint Francis de Sales
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Post by: Ascetik on February 17, 2021, 06:43:26 AM
St. John of the Cross - Ascent of Mt. Carmel.

"
In order to arrive at pleasure in everything
 Desire to have pleasure in nothing.
 In order to arrive at possessing everything,
 Desire to possess nothing.
 In order to arrive at being everything
 Desire to be nothing.
 In order to arrive at knowing everything,
 Desire to know nothing.
 In order to arrive at that wherein thou hast no pleasure,
 Thou must go by a way wherein thou hast no pleasure.
 In order to arrive at that which thou knowest not
 Thou must go by a way thou knowest not.
 In order to arrive at that which thou possest not,
 Thou must go by a way that thou possesst not.
 In order to arrive at that which thou art not,
 Thou must go through that which thou art not.
 When thy mind dwells upon anything,
 Thou art ceasing to cast thyself upon the All.
 For in order to pass from the all to the All,
 Thou hast to deny thyself wholly in all.
 And when thou comest to possess it wholly,
 Thou must possess it without desiring anything.
 For, if thou wilt have anything in having all,
 Thou hast not thy treasure purely in God."
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: shin on February 17, 2021, 01:09:47 PM
Some beautiful quotes just posted.

'Kiss the hands of God, crucified for you, the hands that have struck you and caused you to suffer. Repeat over and over again to Him His own words to His Father while He was suffering: Not my will but thine be done. In all that Thou wishest of me, today and for always, in heaven and on earth, let Thy will be done, but let it be done on earth as it is done in heaven.'

St. Claude de la Colombiere
saintsquotes.net (http://saintsquotes.net/)
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Post by: trad123 on February 17, 2021, 03:17:17 PM
http://www.catholicstoreroom.com/category/quotes/quote-author/philip-neri-1515-1595/page/8/


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Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to be tempted by the opposite vice. Therefore, look upon every temptation as an invitation to grow in a particular virtue and a promise by God that you will be successful, if only you stand fast.

 –Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)




The Spiritual Maxims of Père Grou, page 151

https://archive.org/details/TheSpiritualMaximsOfPereGrou/page/n159/mode/2up


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Do you dread trials? They are indispensably necessary for your admission to heaven. The willing acceptance of them will make them sweet. You do not appreciate the all-powerful operation of grace, and the wondrous changes which it brings to pass in the mind and heart. Yield yourself up to it, and have no uneasiness concerning your own infirmity. You will be weak only so far as you rely on yourself; but if you place your whole confidence in God, you will be able to say with S. Paul : "I can do all things through Christ Which strengtheneth me."



Flowers of the passion; thoughts of St. Paul of the Cross


https://archive.org/details/FlowersOfThePassion1893/page/n145/mode/2up?q=death

page 141
Quote
Sufferings are the richest presents that Divine Majesty bestows on you.

page 144
Quote
We must not serve God for the sake of His consolations, but because He is worthy of being served. God usually deprives His servants, for a time, of all consolation, that they may learn to serve Him through pure love, and become truly faithful servants. He deprives them of spiritual delights, even on the most solemn occasions, to test their faith and fidelity.
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Miseremini on February 17, 2021, 04:54:06 PM
"You must accept your cross; if you bear it courageously it will carry you to Heaven."
                                                                            St Jean Maria Vianney
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Post by: Emile on February 17, 2021, 10:29:52 PM
"Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children."

St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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Post by: Emile on February 17, 2021, 10:38:51 PM
Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.

St. Bonaventure
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Post by: Emile on February 18, 2021, 03:04:26 PM
Always stay very close to our Lord, present in the tabernacle. Be completely absorbed by devotion to Him there and never let go.
St. Bernadette
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Post by: Emile on February 19, 2021, 02:26:36 PM
The source of justice is not vengeance but charity.

-Saint Bridget of Sweden
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Post by: Emile on February 20, 2021, 10:01:55 AM
Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear; rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise, God, whose you are, will deliver you out of them. He is your keeper. He has kept you hitherto. Do you but hold fast to his dear hand, and he will lead you safely through all things; and, when you cannot stand, he will bear you in his arms. Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow. Our Father will either shield you from suffering, or he will give you strength to bear it.

- St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Emile on February 21, 2021, 10:02:28 AM
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
-St. Teresa of Avila
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Post by: Emile on February 22, 2021, 07:00:12 PM
With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
-St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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Post by: Emile on February 23, 2021, 07:44:58 AM
"The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of every day with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength."
- St. Peter Damian
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Post by: shin on February 23, 2021, 02:00:55 PM
You have some lovely quotes here Emile.
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Post by: Emile on February 23, 2021, 02:47:45 PM
You have some lovely quotes here Emile.
Thank you Shin. I was just looking at the website that you linked above:

http://saintsbooks.net/

What an awesome collection of books!
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Post by: MyrnaM on February 23, 2021, 02:53:51 PM
Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.

St. Bonaventure
I'll drink to that!
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Post by: Emile on February 24, 2021, 07:51:31 AM
Love Mary! She is lovable, faithful, constant. She will never let herself be outdone in love, but will ever remain supreme. If you are in danger, she will hasten to free you. If you are troubled, she will console you. If you are sick, she will bring you relief. If you are in need, she will help you. She does not look to see what kind of person you have been. She simply comes to a heart that wants to love her. She comes quickly and opens her merciful heart to you, embraces you and consoles and serves you. She will even be at hand to accompany you on the trip to eternity.
- St. Gabriel Possenti
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Post by: Nishant Xavier on February 24, 2021, 12:27:19 PM
Great thread, Emile. Thanks for it.

St. Francis de Sales: "The sum of all spiritual exercises, (is) the most holy, sacred, and Sovereign Sacrifice and Sacrament of the Eucharist, the very center of our Christian religion, the heart of all devotion, the soul of piety; that Ineffable Mystery which embraces the whole depth of Divine Love, by which God, giving himself really to us, conveys all his graces and favors to men with royal magnificence … Prayer made in union with this Divine Sacrifice has untold power…"
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Post by: Meg on February 24, 2021, 12:43:15 PM
Love Mary! She is lovable, faithful, constant. She will never let herself be outdone in love, but will ever remain supreme. If you are in danger, she will hasten to free you. If you are troubled, she will console you. If you are sick, she will bring you relief. If you are in need, she will help you. She does not look to see what kind of person you have been. She simply comes to a heart that wants to love her. She comes quickly and opens her merciful heart to you, embraces you and consoles and serves you. She will even be at hand to accompany you on the trip to eternity.
- St. Gabriel Possenti

I appreciate the focus on Our Lady. There was never a saint, as far as I know, who didn't have a strong devotion to Our Lady.

Indeed, as you say, she will console, and strengthen and relieve. There never was and never will be another one like her.
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Nishant Xavier on February 25, 2021, 03:57:47 AM
St. Leonard of Port Maurice: "Take my advice, and in every Mass ask God to make you a great saint. Does this seem too much? It is not too much. Is it not our good Master who proclaims in the Gospel that, for a cup of cold water given out of love of him, he will, in return, give paradise? How, then, while offering to God the blood of his most blessed Son, should he not give you a hundred heavens, were there so many?"

Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Emile on February 25, 2021, 02:03:37 PM
What does love look like?
It has the hands to help others.
It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy.
It has eyes to see misery and want.
It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men.
That is what love looks like.
-St. Augustine
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Post by: Emile on February 26, 2021, 02:57:47 PM
In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.
-St. Margaret of Cortona
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Post by: Emile on February 27, 2021, 12:04:42 AM
I will attempt day by day to break my will into pieces. I want to do God’s Holy Will, not my own!
-St. Gabriel of our Lady of Sorrows
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Post by: Nishant Xavier on February 27, 2021, 06:36:15 AM
St. Padre Pio: ✝ In all the free time you have, once you have finished your duties of state, you should kneel down and pray the Rosary. Pray the Rosary before the Blessed Sacrament or before a crucifix.

✝ Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God’s heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should only speak to Him with your heart.
✝ Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on its boundless grief and how precious is our soul.



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Post by: Emile on February 28, 2021, 12:24:55 AM
Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.
–St. Thomas Aquinas
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Post by: Emile on March 01, 2021, 07:33:06 AM
A Christian is not his own master, since all his time belongs to God.
-St. Ignatius of Antioch
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Post by: Emile on March 02, 2021, 07:43:42 AM
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
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Post by: Emile on March 03, 2021, 07:39:37 AM

All love that takes not its beginning from Our Saviour's Passion is frivolous and dangerous. Unhappy is death without the love of the Saviour, unhappy is love without the death of the Saviour! Love and death are so mingled in the Passion of Our Saviour that we cannot have the one in our heart without the other. Upon Calvary one cannot have life without love, nor love without the death of Our Redeemer.
-St. Francis DeSales
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Post by: Emile on March 04, 2021, 07:45:44 AM
Draw nigh to her in your temptations: and the serenity of her countenance will bring you peace and confidence.
-St. Bonaventure

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Post by: Emile on March 05, 2021, 07:36:45 AM
We must never pray for a favor for anyone, except conditionally, saying, 'If it please God,' or the like.
-St. Philip Neri

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Post by: Emile on March 06, 2021, 08:43:34 AM
Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.
-St. Gregory nαzιanzen
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Post by: Emile on March 07, 2021, 02:19:50 PM
It is patience that reveals every grace to you, and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them.
-St. Pachomius
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Post by: Miseremini on March 07, 2021, 02:30:10 PM
Devotion gains much more in influence when it is practiced by the men.
                                                                   St.  Jean Vianney
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Post by: Emile on March 08, 2021, 07:14:21 AM
Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.
-St. John Chrysostom

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Post by: 2Vermont on March 08, 2021, 07:24:44 AM
I'll drink to that!
Ha ha....I was thinking of you when I read that!   :laugh1:
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Post by: Emile on March 09, 2021, 02:01:00 PM
Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
-St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Emile on March 10, 2021, 07:16:36 AM
Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.
-St. Anthony of Padua

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Post by: Emile on March 11, 2021, 07:37:33 AM
Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.
-St Francis of Assisi

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Post by: Emile on March 12, 2021, 07:35:33 AM
The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.
-Pope St. Gregory the great

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Post by: Emile on March 13, 2021, 09:02:22 AM
We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder.
-Pope St. Gregory the great
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Post by: Emile on March 14, 2021, 10:05:28 AM
There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon the simple raising of our minds to God, and the more simple and stripped of feeling it is, the surer it is.
-St. Jane Frances de Chantal
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Post by: Emile on March 15, 2021, 05:36:19 PM
Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.
- Saint Francis de Sales

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Post by: Emile on March 16, 2021, 07:52:59 AM
The soul that journeys to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.
-St. John of the Cross

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Post by: Emile on March 17, 2021, 02:08:31 PM
"Mary having co-operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain salvation except through her intercession."
- St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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Post by: Emile on March 17, 2021, 09:44:48 PM
He watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son.
-St. Patrick
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Post by: Emile on March 17, 2021, 09:46:27 PM
Never trust a dog to watch your food.
-St. Patrick
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Post by: Emile on March 19, 2021, 07:45:06 AM
What steps will you take to reach the high level to which God is calling you? The means of holiness and salvation are known to everybody, since they are found in the Gospel; the masters of the spiritual life have explained them; the Saints have practiced them...These means are: sincere humility, unceasing prayer, complete self-denial, abandonment to Divine Providence, and obedience to the will of God.
St. Louis de Montfort

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Post by: Emile on March 20, 2021, 04:34:01 PM
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Emile on March 21, 2021, 11:41:02 AM
Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.
-St. Benedict
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Post by: Emile on March 22, 2021, 07:40:53 AM
Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious Jєωel for our heavenly crown... Man should always firmly believe that God sends just that trial which is most beneficial for him.
-St. Gertrude
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Post by: Emile on March 23, 2021, 07:41:56 AM
Angels constantly guard the clients of this Blessed Virgin from the assaults of Hell.
-St. Gertrude

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Post by: Emile on March 24, 2021, 07:49:30 AM
For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything.
-St. Athanasius

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Post by: Emile on March 25, 2021, 07:47:55 AM
Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.
-St. Francis de Sales

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Post by: Emile on March 26, 2021, 10:54:09 AM
After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.

-St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
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Post by: Emile on March 27, 2021, 09:57:09 PM
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
-St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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Post by: Nadir on March 28, 2021, 05:55:10 AM
It is not without risk that one climbs a defective ladder. And so with honour, praise and precedence which are all dangerous for humility.
St. John Climacus
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Post by: Emile on March 29, 2021, 02:34:32 PM
”We may seek graces, but shall never find them without the intercession of Mary.”
-Saint Cajetan, Founder of the Theatines

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Post by: Emile on March 30, 2021, 07:45:58 AM
It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished they can do no harm.
-St. Gertrude
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Post by: Emile on March 31, 2021, 02:23:27 PM
We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

-St. Francis deSales
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Post by: jerm on March 31, 2021, 03:40:27 PM
"Pray to soften heartened hearts, to open darkened minds.“ -Charbel Makhlouf (post-Vatican II saint, but an incredibly holy man nonetheless)
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Post by: 54rosary on March 31, 2021, 04:46:08 PM
One day through the ROSARY and the SCAPULAR,  I will save the world.

These words were spoken by our BLESSED MOTHER MARY to Saint Dominic in the year 1208.
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Post by: Emile on April 01, 2021, 07:56:08 AM
The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted to make a display the thing would have been just to appear and dazzle the beholders. But for Him Who came to heal and to teach the way was not merely to dwell here, but to put Himself at the disposal of those who needed Him, and to be manifested according as they could bear it, not vitiating the value of the Divine appearing by exceeding their capacity to receive it.
-St. Athanasius
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Post by: Ladislaus on April 01, 2021, 08:12:59 AM
"Pray to soften heartened hearts, to open darkened minds.“ -Charbel Makhlouf (post-Vatican II saint, but an incredibly holy man nonetheless)

They accidentally get some of these right, like Charbel and Padre Pio ... but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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Post by: jerm on April 01, 2021, 05:43:14 PM
They accidentally get some of these right, like Charbel and Padre Pio ... but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Definitely. Charbel, Padre Pio, all of the Venerables, Blesseds, and Servants of God from pre V2 they canonized like Martin de Porres, as well as others like the Eastern Catholics they've canonized, Fr. Damien, and Solanus Casey are all legitimately saintly people. 
Some of the others, less so.
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Emile on April 02, 2021, 04:23:57 AM
You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.
-St. Athanasius

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Post by: Emile on April 03, 2021, 06:01:14 AM
Disasters teach us humility.
-St. Anselm of Canterbury

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Post by: Miseremini on April 27, 2021, 05:32:49 PM
You have within you everything that you need to purchase the kingdom of heaven.
Joy will be purchased by your sorrow,
rest by your labour,
glory by your humiliation,
and eternal life by your passing death.

                                         St. Augustine
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Emile on October 08, 2021, 02:41:10 PM

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"There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance." - St. Bridget
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Post by: shin on October 08, 2021, 03:13:36 PM
Amen.
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Post by: MaryJK on October 08, 2021, 06:42:12 PM
Thank you, Emile,for that beautiful posting today. Been struggling with my past lately and gave me some hope. 
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Post by: Emile on October 16, 2021, 01:54:15 PM
“You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.”
-St Teresa of Avila
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Post by: DigitalLogos on October 19, 2021, 11:30:39 AM
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Post by: Marion on October 19, 2021, 02:33:50 PM
Quote from: Padre Pio
Most Padre Pio quotes are fake.
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Post by: Marion on October 19, 2021, 02:37:14 PM
Quote from: Padre Pio
If nobody ever said it before, just say that Padre Pio did.
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Post by: DigitalLogos on October 19, 2021, 04:47:00 PM
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Post by: DigitalLogos on October 20, 2021, 10:13:47 PM
Not a saint, but still very wise words

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Post by: DigitalLogos on October 30, 2021, 06:33:46 PM
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Post by: DigitalLogos on October 30, 2021, 06:35:30 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Emile on October 30, 2021, 09:15:31 PM
We can, if we will, become a saint, for God will never refuse to help us to do so.

- St. John Marie Vianney
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Post by: DigitalLogos on October 31, 2021, 07:10:13 AM
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Post by: Todd The Trad on October 31, 2021, 07:57:35 AM
“[Heretics] mean one thing in their heart; they promise another with their lips. They speak with piety and conceal impiety. They speak Christ and hide the Antichrist, for they know that they will never succeed with their seduction if they disclose the Antichrist. They present light only to conceal darkness; through light they lead to darkness.”

-St. Jerome 
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: donkath on November 01, 2021, 02:26:49 AM

The most holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or, above all, spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families, of the families of the world, or of the religious communities, or even of the life of peoples and nations, that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the holy Rosary. With the holy Rosary, we will save ourselves; we will sanctify ourselves; we will console our Lord, and obtain the salvation of many souls.1 (Conversation between Sr. Lucy of Fatima and Fr. Fuentes, Dec. 26, 1957)



Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on November 07, 2021, 04:52:54 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on November 10, 2021, 02:14:35 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Riddlsnthdrk on November 11, 2021, 12:41:29 PM
HE was pro prostitution...LMAO
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Riddlsnthdrk on November 11, 2021, 12:54:51 PM
Augustine was also pro prostitution...wow..these guys really laid down the law...
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on November 20, 2021, 10:43:55 AM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Matto on November 20, 2021, 10:47:41 AM
Augustine was also pro prostitution...wow..these guys really laid down the law...
They must have had reasons. One obvious reason I can think of is that if prostitution is easily available, the evil men will sleep with the prostitutes and most of the women will not be pressured to become sluts. But if prostitution is not an option, the evil men will corrupt the women and the women will become sluts. So with prostitution fewer people fall into sins of fornication.
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on November 20, 2021, 03:54:31 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Emile on January 26, 2022, 01:19:31 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: augustineeens on January 26, 2022, 09:39:16 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Cryptinox on February 06, 2022, 04:31:42 PM
“Have you strayed from the path leading to heaven? Then call on Mary, for her name means ‘Star of the Sea, the North Star which guides the ships of our souls during the voyage of this life’, and she will guide you to the harbor of eternal salvation.”

~ St Louis de Montfort
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Miseremini on March 11, 2022, 02:43:48 PM
“Well . . . I believe, when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties . . . they lead their country by a short route to chaos.”
                                                     St. Thomas More
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Emile on April 11, 2022, 02:45:28 PM
“Guard your eyes! Guard your eyes so that one day, you may deserve to gaze upon the Blessed Virgin in Heaven.”
-St. John Bosco







Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Emile on April 11, 2022, 02:47:34 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on May 12, 2022, 12:49:48 PM
https://youtu.be/EGnl2k-8Chg
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Emile on May 25, 2022, 01:47:04 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: epiphany on May 26, 2022, 03:45:40 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on May 26, 2022, 03:49:09 PM
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I needed this one. God bless you
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Emile on May 28, 2022, 02:22:13 PM
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Therefore, let not a heretic seize you because he can cite some examples from the Scriptures, nor let he who seems learned arrogate them. The devil, too, uses the evidence of the Scriptures (Lk. 4:10-11), yet not in order to teach, but to entrap and deceive.
- St Ambrose
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on May 29, 2022, 07:25:59 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 05, 2022, 03:15:50 PM
Not a quote but a story of how a true Catholic regards pagan idolators

https://youtu.be/_ck2KNuxuVM
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Emile on June 12, 2022, 11:23:38 AM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 13, 2022, 01:24:36 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 18, 2022, 07:20:45 PM
:incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 18, 2022, 07:33:33 PM
...
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 22, 2022, 10:12:53 PM
St. Ambrose (382): “There are not enough hours in the day for me to recite even the names of all the various sects of heretics.”

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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 23, 2022, 12:02:59 PM
:incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: trad123 on June 23, 2022, 08:38:37 PM
You must endeavor to be mild and amiable to everyone, under all circuмstances and at all times. “There are many,” says St. Bernard, “who are full of sweetness as long as things go their way; but when they meet with contradiction they break forth in fire and flames, and fume like a veritable Vesuvius. They are like the coals that glow beneath the ashes.” He who desires to become a saint must live like a lily among thorns; it is always a lily no matter how much the thorns may prick it. In other words he must always be meek and amiable. The exterior of a soul that loves God will reflect the peace that reigns within alike in prosperity and adversity. If we must answer one who offends us, let us do so with meekness. “A mild answer breaketh wrath,” says Holy Scripture. (Prov. 15:1). If we are too excited, it is better to remain silent. In the heat of passion it seems right to say everything that comes to the tongue; but when anger has subsided we find we have committed as many faults as we have spoken words.

Saint Alphonsus de Liguori. The School of Christian Perfection (pp. 133-134)
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: trad123 on June 23, 2022, 08:42:09 PM
St. Francis de Sales was once accused of having killed a man, so that he might live with his wife. The Saint left it all in God’s hands, and had no fear for his good name. To those who advised him to defend himself, he made answer that he would leave the task of making reparation to the care of the one of whose permission his good name had been smirched.

Vianney, St. Jean Marie. Sermons of the Curé of Ars: Sermons for all the Sundays and Feast Days of the Year .
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 23, 2022, 08:59:24 PM
If we are too excited, it is better to remain silent. In the heat of passion it seems right to say everything that comes to the tongue; but when anger has subsided we find we have committed as many faults as we have spoken words.

Saint Alphonsus de Liguori. The School of Christian Perfection (pp. 133-134)
I need to put this advice into practice more often.
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 24, 2022, 10:43:59 AM
Padre Pio (1913): “A woman who is frivolous as regards dress can never be clothed in the life of Jesus Christ and she loses adornment of soul once this idol enters into her heart.  Let these women adorn themselves, as St. Paul would have it (1 Tim. 2:9), modestly and sensibly in seemly apparel…” (Letter to Padre Agostino, 8/2/1913)

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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 26, 2022, 08:12:23 PM
:incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 26, 2022, 08:53:03 PM
:pray:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 26, 2022, 09:30:11 PM
:pray:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 27, 2022, 05:28:52 PM
St. Maximus the Confessor: “For divine justice has judged that those who reduce human existence to this present life, and who take pride in wealth, bodily health, and various honors, and who believe that these things alone constitute blessedness, reckoning the good things of the soul as having no value, will not be deemed worthy of receiving a share in the divine and eternal good things, to which they gave absolutely no thought, owing to their overwhelming interest in material things…”
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 27, 2022, 05:29:20 PM
:incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 27, 2022, 08:32:41 PM
(https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/2002/img/20020616_padre-pio.jpg)
“We seek God in books, but it is in prayer that we find Him. Prayer is the key that opens the heart of God." - Padre Pio
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 28, 2022, 05:39:40 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on June 29, 2022, 11:38:15 PM
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Pio of Pietrelcina, pray for us
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on July 29, 2022, 08:11:01 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on August 06, 2022, 09:28:45 AM
:incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on August 08, 2022, 08:47:07 AM
:incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: HolyAngels on August 08, 2022, 01:11:41 PM
'Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on August 14, 2022, 10:47:31 AM
:pray:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on September 03, 2022, 07:04:09 AM
Outside of the Church there is absolutely no salvation.
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: sram on September 05, 2022, 10:22:08 AM
The branch has the same form when it has been cut off from the vine, but of what profit for it is the form, if it does not live from the root. ~ St. Augustine
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on September 05, 2022, 09:22:16 PM
St. Gertrude the Great pray for us
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Post by: DigitalLogos on September 07, 2022, 12:56:08 PM
:pray:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on October 15, 2022, 07:33:19 PM
:pray:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on October 15, 2022, 07:41:26 PM
There's always the question of the legitimacy of Padre Pio quotes, but it's a good one regardless
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Cryptinox on October 15, 2022, 08:41:47 PM
“I am used to having my body spend days and weeks without eating or drinking, and this for the love of my friend Jesus Christ, so I am already able to resist without despairing.” ~ Pope Saint Callistus
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on October 23, 2022, 07:03:45 AM
:incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on October 23, 2022, 07:13:54 AM
:pray:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on November 07, 2022, 11:40:51 AM
:incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on November 09, 2022, 07:26:03 PM
:incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on November 09, 2022, 07:39:20 PM
:pray:
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: HolyAngels on November 09, 2022, 07:43:03 PM
Do you wish to rise?
Begin by descending.
You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds?
Lay first the foundation of humility.
It was pride that changed angels into devils;
it is humility that makes men as angels. ~ St. Augustine
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Miseremini on November 20, 2022, 10:22:38 PM
The cross is the gift God gives to His friends.
                                 St Jean Vianney, Cure d'Ars
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on November 21, 2022, 06:24:10 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on November 25, 2022, 07:03:31 PM
"Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you lose your soul, you lose all." - St. Leonard of Port Maurice

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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Ladislaus on November 26, 2022, 07:56:29 AM
"Avoid ... games." - St. Leonard of Port Maurice

:confused:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on November 26, 2022, 08:42:57 AM
:confused:
Idk what is meant by that either. Gambling perhaps? I don't see how recreation would be a sinful waste of our time
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Quo vadis Domine on November 26, 2022, 08:46:37 AM


“Act in such a manner that everyone must speak well of you, and then let others talk as they will. You might possibly say to yourself when your faults are spoken of: “That is the least they can say about me; what if they knew all!””

Saint Alphonsus (from “Twelve Steps to Holiness and Salvation)
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Ladislaus on November 26, 2022, 01:09:34 PM
Idk what is meant by that either. Gambling perhaps? I don't see how recreation would be a sinful waste of our time

Some saints were stricter than others about that kind of thing.  I recall the story of one saint who was playing some game during a recreation period who was asked what he would do if he were told that he'd die within the hour.  He responded that he would keep playing the game.  That saint was so completely united to the will of God that even his playing of the game was an act of submitting to God's will.
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Cryptinox on November 26, 2022, 01:50:20 PM
Some saints were stricter than others about that kind of thing.  I recall the story of one saint who was playing some game during a recreation period who was asked what he would do if he were told that he'd die within the hour.  He responded that he would keep playing the game.  That saint was so completely united to the will of God that even his playing of the game was an act of submitting to God's will.
I remember reading that St. Peter Damian condemned chess since he didn't know much about it and thought it was gambling
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on November 27, 2022, 05:24:27 PM
St. Moses the Black ora pro nobis :incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on November 28, 2022, 08:32:53 AM
:pray: St. Bernard ora pro nobis
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on December 03, 2022, 06:01:57 PM
:incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on December 11, 2022, 07:52:36 PM
:incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Emile on December 12, 2022, 07:57:19 AM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on December 12, 2022, 05:29:56 PM
“My dear friends, at a time when I was eagerly looking forward to writing to you about the salvation that we all share, I have been forced to write to you now and appeal to you to fight hard for the faith which has been once and for all entrusted to the saints. Certain people have infiltrated among you and they are the ones you had a warning about, in writing, long ago, when they were condemned for denying all religion, turning the grace of our God into immorality, and rejecting our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.”

St. Jude 
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on December 12, 2022, 07:05:28 PM
:incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: HolyAngels on December 16, 2022, 10:09:59 PM
"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 

"Our Lord says that whoever wishes to be greatest of all most make himself  least of all. This is a truth that all Christians believe; how happens it, then, that's so few practice it ?"

St Vincent de Paul
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on December 23, 2022, 03:40:47 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on December 23, 2022, 04:11:58 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Miseremini on December 23, 2022, 05:44:48 PM

“Right is right

even if no one is doing it;
wrong is wrong
even if everyone is doing it.”
Saint Augustine


Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Miseremini on January 08, 2023, 01:32:49 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on January 09, 2023, 10:41:52 AM
:incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on January 09, 2023, 04:11:02 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Emile on January 20, 2023, 12:46:16 PM

“Remember that God permit’s everything for your good. Do not lose your confidence.”

- St. Alphonsus Liguori

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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: SeanJohnson on January 21, 2023, 05:12:20 AM
“He who wills the ends, wills the means.”

-St. Ignatius of Loyola
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on January 21, 2023, 10:22:39 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on January 26, 2023, 10:33:41 AM
:pray:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Miseremini on February 03, 2023, 02:32:07 PM
 “Look at things from the point of view of eternity and then you will understand why God seems to be so rigorous with His friends and so favorable to His enemies.”
                                                                           St Augustine
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on February 16, 2023, 07:50:55 PM
:incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on February 16, 2023, 07:51:14 PM
:incense:
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on February 25, 2023, 07:48:46 AM
Spiritual milk for the day

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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Fifteen Decades Daily on February 25, 2023, 01:23:56 PM
Mary must shine forth more than ever in mercy, in might, and in grace, in these latter times:

in mercy, to bring back and lovingly receive the poor strayed sinners who shall be converted and shall return to the Catholic Church;

in might, against the enemies of God, idolaters, schismatics, Mahometans, Jєωs, and souls hardened in impiety, who shall rise in terrible revolt against God to seduce all those who shall oppose them and to make them fall by promises and threats;

and finally, she must shine forth in grace, in order to animate and sustain the valiant soldiers and faithful servants of Jesus Christ, who shall battle for His interests.

St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion, n. 50


Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Soubirous on February 28, 2023, 03:55:07 PM
St. Peter Damian:

When you are scorned by others and lashed by God, do not despair. 
God lashes us in this life to shield us from the eternal lash in the next.
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Nadir on February 28, 2023, 05:03:05 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Nadir on February 28, 2023, 05:32:32 PM
Do the Little Things: Saint David of Wales the Miracle Worker
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zH8a6BcFATI




Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on March 01, 2023, 08:35:07 AM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on March 02, 2023, 08:37:22 AM
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"Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock." - Ps. 136:9
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on March 02, 2023, 11:03:17 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Fifteen Decades Daily on March 04, 2023, 07:09:58 AM
It is quite true that the most faithful servants of the Blessed Virgin, being also her greatest favorites, receive from her the greatest graces and favors from Heaven, which are crosses.

But it is also the servants of Mary who carry these crosses with more ease, more merit and more glory. 

That which would stay the progress of another a thousand times over, or perhaps would make him fall, does not once stop their steps, but rather enables them to advance;

because that good Mother, all full of grace and of the unction of the Holy Ghost, prepares her servants' crosses with so much maternal sweetness and pure love as to make them gladly acceptable, no matter how bitter they may be in themselves.

St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion, n. 154.
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on March 04, 2023, 10:03:55 AM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on March 05, 2023, 02:51:34 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on March 06, 2023, 04:05:57 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on March 07, 2023, 02:22:42 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Kazimierz on March 07, 2023, 04:29:46 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on March 08, 2023, 09:53:20 AM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on March 08, 2023, 09:59:00 AM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on March 09, 2023, 09:34:43 AM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on March 09, 2023, 09:45:42 AM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Kazimierz on March 09, 2023, 11:36:53 AM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Kazimierz on March 09, 2023, 11:39:44 AM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Kazimierz on March 09, 2023, 11:41:27 AM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on March 09, 2023, 12:34:34 PM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: DigitalLogos on March 10, 2023, 04:00:45 PM
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Post by: Fifteen Decades Daily on March 11, 2023, 07:44:32 AM
"If you follow her," says St. Bernard, "you cannot wander from the road."

Fear not, therefore, that a true child of Mary can be deceived by the evil one, or fall into any formal heresy. There where the guidance of Mary is, neither the evil spirit with his illusions, nor the heretics with their subtleties, can ever come.

St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion, n. 209
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Soubirous on March 11, 2023, 03:44:49 PM
He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands

St. Benedict of Nursia
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Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 14, 2023, 06:53:50 PM
Never trust a dog to watch your food.
-St. Patrick
lol.  Or my water bottle.  
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Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 14, 2023, 08:11:29 PM
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Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 14, 2023, 08:15:41 PM
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Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 14, 2023, 08:26:01 PM
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Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 14, 2023, 08:27:36 PM
St Patrick’s Breastplate
I arise today 
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
Through belief in the Threeness,
Through confession of the Oneness
of the Creator of creation.
I arise today
Through the strength of Christ’s birth with His baptism,
Through the strength of His crucifixion with His burial,
Through the strength of His resurrection with His ascension,
Through the strength of His descent for the judgment of doom.
I arise today
Through the strength of the love of cherubim,
In the obedience of angels,
In the service of archangels,
In the hope of resurrection to meet with reward,
In the prayers of patriarchs,
In the predictions of prophets,
In the preaching of apostles,
In the faith of confessors,
In the innocence of holy virgins,
In the deeds of righteous men.
I arise today, through
The strength of heaven,
The light of the sun,
The radiance of the moon,
The splendor of fire,
The speed of lightning,
The swiftness of wind,
The depth of the sea,
The stability of the earth,
The firmness of rock.
I arise today, through
God’s strength to pilot me,
God’s might to uphold me,
God’s wisdom to guide me,
God’s eye to look before me,
God’s ear to hear me,
God’s word to speak for me,
God’s hand to guard me,
God’s shield to protect me,
God’s host to save me
From snares of devils,
From temptation of vices,
From everyone who shall wish me ill,
afar and near.
I summon today
All these powers between me and those evils,
Against every cruel and merciless power
that may oppose my body and soul,
Against incantations of false prophets,
Against black laws of pagandom,
Against false laws of heretics,
Against craft of idolatry,
Against spells of witches and smiths and wizards,
Against every knowledge that corrupts man’s body and soul;
Christ to shield me today
Against poison, against burning,
Against drowning, against wounding,
So that there may come to me an abundance of reward.
Christ with me,
Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Christ in me,
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ on my right,
Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down,
Christ when I sit down,
Christ when I arise,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.
I arise today
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
Through belief in the Threeness,
Through confession of the Oneness
of the Creator of creation.
Amen.

Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: Fifteen Decades Daily on March 18, 2023, 07:28:05 AM
Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Ghost.

And she shall bring forth a son; and thou shalt call His name Jesus. For He shall save His people from their sins.

(St. Matthew 1: 20-21)
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Post by: Fifteen Decades Daily on April 01, 2023, 01:41:50 PM
The true disciples of Jesus Christ shall carry on their shoulders the bloody standard of the Cross, the Crucifix in their right hand and the Rosary in their left, the sacred Names of Jesus and Mary in their hearts, and the modesty and mortification of Jesus Christ in their own behaviour.

These are the great men who are to come; but Mary is the one who, by order of the Most High, shall fashion them for the purpose of extending His empire over that of the impious, the idolaters and the Mahometans.

St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion, n. 59.
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Post by: B from A on April 14, 2023, 06:05:00 AM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: AnthonyPadua on April 14, 2023, 07:39:49 AM
Pope St. Leo the Great (400-461)
"He that sees another in error, and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error."

Pope St. Felix III (†492)
"Not to oppose error, is to approve it, and not to defend truth is to suppress it, and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage them."

Pope St. Pius V (1504-1572)
"All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics."

Pope Innocent III
"Not to oppose erroneous Doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true Doctrine is to suppress it."

St. Athanasius
"God has promised to be like a wall of fire round those who rightly believe in Him."
"Catholics who remain faithful to tradition even if they are reduced to but a handful, they are the True Church of Jesus Christ."
"May God console you!...What saddens you...is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises, but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: What is more important, the place or the Faith? The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in this struggle? The one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith?"

St. Ambrose (340-397)
"Even heretics appear to possess Christ, for none of them denies the name of Christ. Still, anyone who does not confess everything that pertains to Christ does in fact deny Christ."

St. Thomas Cajetan, O.P. (1469-1534)
Theologian and Cardinal
He points out that the famous axiom "Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia" (Where the Pope is, there is also the Church) holds true only when the Pope acts and behaves as the Pope, because Peter "is subject to the duties of the Office" otherwise, "neither is the Church in him, nor is he in the Church."

Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824)
"The Church is the only one, the Roman Catholic! And if there were left upon earth but one Catholic, he would be the one, universal Church, the Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ against which the gates of Hell shall never prevail."

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Post by: Marulus Fidelis on April 14, 2023, 08:41:14 AM
Pope St. Leo the Great (400-461)
"He that sees another in error, and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error."

Pope St. Felix III (†492)
"Not to oppose error, is to approve it, and not to defend truth is to suppress it, and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage them."

Pope St. Pius V (1504-1572)
"All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics."

Pope Innocent III
"Not to oppose erroneous Doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true Doctrine is to suppress it."

St. Athanasius
"God has promised to be like a wall of fire round those who rightly believe in Him."
"Catholics who remain faithful to tradition even if they are reduced to but a handful, they are the True Church of Jesus Christ."
"May God console you!...What saddens you...is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises, but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: What is more important, the place or the Faith? The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in this struggle? The one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith?"

St. Ambrose (340-397)
"Even heretics appear to possess Christ, for none of them denies the name of Christ. Still, anyone who does not confess everything that pertains to Christ does in fact deny Christ."

St. Thomas Cajetan, O.P. (1469-1534)
Theologian and Cardinal
He points out that the famous axiom "Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia" (Where the Pope is, there is also the Church) holds true only when the Pope acts and behaves as the Pope, because Peter "is subject to the duties of the Office" otherwise, "neither is the Church in him, nor is he in the Church."

Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824)
"The Church is the only one, the Roman Catholic! And if there were left upon earth but one Catholic, he would be the one, universal Church, the Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ against which the gates of Hell shall never prevail."
Cajetan wasn't canonized.

Also, although Anne Emmerich is likely a real saint the writings handed down to us of her visions are wholly kabbalistic and heretical. Best to avoid quoting her supposed words.
Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: AnthonyPadua on April 14, 2023, 06:33:07 PM
Cajetan wasn't canonized.

Also, although Anne Emmerich is likely a real saint the writings handed down to us of her visions are wholly kabbalistic and heretical. Best to avoid quoting her supposed words.
Sorry I wasn't aware, is there any way to delete?
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Post by: Ladislaus on April 14, 2023, 06:38:52 PM
Cajetan wasn't canonized.

Also, although Anne Emmerich is likely a real saint the writings handed down to us of her visions are wholly kabbalistic and heretical. Best to avoid quoting her supposed words.

Nonsense.  While it's true that here visions were likely embellished by Brentano, your allegations of kabbalistic heresy are nonsense.

There is a Saint Cajetan, who lived around the same time as Cardinal Thomas Cajetan, and the two are often confused.  Thomas Cajetan, alas, was a proto-Modernist with some terrible ideas.
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Post by: HolyAngels on April 26, 2023, 03:35:53 PM
O Jesus, Who in Thy cruel Passion didst become "the Reproach of men and the Man of Sorrows," I worship Thy Divine Face.
- St. Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face
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Post by: Miseremini on May 20, 2023, 08:19:38 PM
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Post by: Soubirous on May 21, 2023, 04:07:37 PM
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Post by: Soubirous on May 27, 2023, 07:53:47 PM
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Post by: HolyAngels on June 07, 2023, 12:17:36 AM
"About Mary, one can never say enough." St. Bernard of Clairvaux


"If you invoke the blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you."

Saint John Vianney
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Post by: Soubirous on June 09, 2023, 09:50:50 AM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: poenitens on June 27, 2023, 11:38:59 PM
"Dear little friends, this beautiful rosebud is for you; it is one of the beads of your Rosary, and it may seem to you to be such a tiny thing. But if you only knew how precious this bead is! This wonderful bud will open out into a gorgeous rose if you say your Hail Mary really well." - St. Louis de Montfort, the Secret of the Rosary
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Post by: poenitens on June 27, 2023, 11:43:39 PM
"Mine are the heavens and mine is the earth. Mine are the nations, the just are mine, and mine the sinners. The angels are mine, and the Mother of God, and all things are mine; and God himself is mine and for me, because Christ is mine and all for me. What do you ask, then, and seek, my soul? Yours is all of this, and all is for you. Do not engage yourself in something less or pay heed to the crumbs that fall from your Father's table. Go forth and exult in your Glory! Hide yourself in it and rejoice, and you will obtain the supplications of your heart." - St. John of the Cross, Sayings of Light and Love
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Post by: poenitens on June 27, 2023, 11:56:06 PM
Love is strong as death.” (Cant. viii. 6.) As no creature can resist death when the hour of dissolution arrives, so there is no difficulty which love, in a soul that loves God, does not overcome. When there is question of pleasing her beloved, love conquers all things: it conquers pains, losses, ignominies. ”Nihil tam durum quod non amoris igne vincatur.” This love made the martyrs, in the midst of torments, racks, and burning gridirons, rejoice, and thank God for enabling them to suffer for him: it made the other saints, when there was no tyrant to torment them, become, as it were, their own executioners, by fasts, disciplines, and penitential austerities. - St. Alphonsus María Liguori, Sermon for Trinity Sunday
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Post by: Soubirous on June 28, 2023, 10:25:28 AM
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Title: Re: Saint quotes
Post by: poenitens on July 02, 2023, 09:11:02 PM
"Medicanti irascitur,” says St. Bernard, “qui non irascitur sagittanti.” (Ser. vi. de Nativ.) Some are not angry, though they ought to be indignant with those who wound their souls by flattery; and are filled with indignation against the person who censures them in order to heal their irregularities. Against the man who abhors correction, the sentence of perdition has, according to the Wise Man, been pronounced. “Because they have despised all my reproofs,. . . .the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.” (Prov. i. 30, etc.) Fools regard as prosperity to be free from correction, or to despise the admonitions which they receive; but such prosperity is the cause of their ruin. - St Alphonsus María Liguori
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Post by: Soubirous on July 19, 2023, 02:05:52 PM
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Post by: Soubirous on July 20, 2023, 06:06:48 PM
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Post by: Soubirous on July 20, 2023, 06:48:11 PM
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Post by: Soubirous on August 04, 2023, 09:25:25 AM
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Post by: Miseremini on August 04, 2023, 12:02:52 PM
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St Jean Marie Baptist Vianney died 164 years ago ...today.
We'll celebrate his feast day in four days on the 8th of August.
Dear cure pray for us.

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Post by: Soubirous on August 05, 2023, 04:01:26 PM
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Post by: AnthonyPadua on August 09, 2023, 03:18:44 AM
“Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.”

- St Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney
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Post by: Soubirous on September 10, 2023, 05:45:02 PM
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Post by: Soubirous on September 13, 2023, 06:31:10 PM
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Post by: poenitens on September 21, 2023, 12:12:38 AM
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-St. Therese de Lisieux, Story of a Soul
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Post by: poenitens on September 27, 2023, 12:54:15 AM
"Of a hundred thousand sinners who continue till death in the state of sin, scarcely one shall be saved" - St. Jerome(https://i.imgur.com/ojmvSDa.jpg)
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Post by: poenitens on September 27, 2023, 01:02:19 AM
"O God! how great, were it in their power to weep, would be the wailing of the angel-guardians of these poor children that are scandalized and brought to hell by the language of obscene tongues! With what earnestness shall the angels demand vengeance from God against the author of such scandals!" - St. Alphonsus María Liguori
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Post by: Soubirous on October 10, 2023, 02:30:41 PM
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Post by: Soubirous on October 15, 2023, 05:14:07 PM
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Post by: Soubirous on October 23, 2023, 09:08:51 PM
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Post by: Soubirous on October 30, 2023, 08:52:53 AM

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St. Alphonsus Rodriguez (1617) 

After his wife and child passed away, he applied to enter the society of Jesus, but was denied due to lack of education and bad health. He was finally admitted as a lay-brother and served as doorkeeper. He guided St. Peter Claver into his mission.

"In the difficulties which are placed before me, why should I not act like a donkey? When one speaks ill of him, he says nothing. When he is mistreated, he says nothing. When he is forgotten, he says nothing. The servant of God must do likewise." - St Alphonsus Rodriguez

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Post by: Soubirous on November 06, 2023, 10:43:07 AM
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(Though not a saint officially, sadly not even a Blessed, Cardinal Bacci (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Bacci) was at age 84 part of the Ottaviani Intervention.)
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Post by: Soubirous on November 06, 2023, 11:31:25 AM
'On the last day, when the general examination takes place, 
there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, 
the aphorisms of Hippocrates, 
or the paragraphs of Justinian. 
Charity will be the whole syllabus.' 

— St. Robert Bellarmine

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Post by: Soubirous on November 12, 2023, 01:28:14 PM
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Post by: Soubirous on November 19, 2023, 11:37:11 AM
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'I do not speak rashly, but as I feel and think. 
I do not think that many bishops are saved, but that those who perish are far more numerous. 
The reason is that the office requires a great soul. 
For there are many things to make a bishop swerve from rectitude, 
and he requires great vigilance on every side.' (St. John Chrysostom)
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Post by: Gray2023 on December 14, 2023, 08:50:29 AM
There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who embrace the practice of this abandonment, which consists in receiving with a certain indifference every sort of event, as it happens in conformity with Divine Providence, as well afflictions as consolations, contempt and reproaches as honor and glory.----St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Gray2023 on December 15, 2023, 07:40:25 AM
If you give yourself to the practice of holy abandonment, though you may not perceive that you gain at all, you will, in fact, advance greatly, as it is with those who sail upon the open sea with favorable winds, trusting wholly to the care of the pilot.----St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Gray2023 on December 16, 2023, 09:21:46 PM
One of the principal effects of holy abandonment in God is evenness of spirits in the various accidents of this life, which is certainly a point of great perfection, and very pleasing to God. The way to maintain it is in imitation of the pilots, to look continually at the Pole Star, that is, the Divine Will, in order to be constantly in conformity with it. For it is this will which, with infinite wisdom, rightly distributes prosperity and adversity, health and sickness, riches and poverty, honor and contempt, knowledge and ignorance, and all that happens in this life. On the other hand, if we regard creatures without this relation to God, we cannot prevent our feelings and disposition from changing, according to the variety of accidents which occur.----St. Francis de Sales

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Post by: Gray2023 on December 17, 2023, 05:51:46 PM
In this holy abandonment springs up that beautiful freedom of spirit which the perfect possess, and in which there is found all the happiness that can be desired in this life; for in fearing nothing, and seeking and desiring nothing of the things of the world, they possess all.----St. Teresa
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Post by: Gray2023 on December 18, 2023, 12:58:11 PM
How beautiful it is to behold a person destitute of all attachment, ready for any act of virtue or charity, gentle to all, indifferent as to any employment, serene in consolations and tribulations, and wholly content if only the will of God be done!----St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Gray2023 on December 22, 2023, 03:27:36 PM
The soul which remains attached to anything, even to the least thing, however many its virtues may be, will never arrive at the liberty of the Divine union. It matters little whether a bird be fastened by a stout or a slender cord----as long as he does not break it, slender as it may be, it will prevent him from flying freely. Oh what a pity it is to see some souls, like rich ships, loaded with a precious freight of good works, spiritual exercises, virtues and favors from God, which, for want of courage to make an end of some miserable little fancy or affection, can never arrive at the port of divine union, while it only needs one good earnest effort to break asunder that thread of attachment! For, to a soul freed from attachment to any creature, the Lord cannot fail to communicate Himself fully, as the sun cannot help entering and lighting up an open room when the sky is clear.----St. John Chrysostom
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Post by: Gray2023 on December 24, 2023, 07:32:30 PM
To arrive at perfect union, there is needed a total and perfect mortification of the senses and desires. The shortest and most effectual method of obtaining it is this: As to the senses whatever pleasing object may offer itself to them, unconnected with pure love to God, we should refuse it to them instantly, for the love of Jesus Christ, who in this life neither had nor desired to have any pleasure except to do the will of His Father, which He called His food. If, for example, there should arise a fancy or wish to hear or see things which do not concern the service of God or lead especially to Him, we should deny this fancy, and refrain from beholding or hearing these things; but if this is not possible, it is sufficient not to consent with the will. Then as to the desires, we should endeavor to incline always to what is poorest, worst, most laborious, most difficult, most unpleasant, and to desire nothing except to suffer and be despised.----St. John of the Cross
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Post by: Gray2023 on December 28, 2023, 02:41:59 PM
Self-will, as God says by the Prophet, is what spoils and corrupts our devotions, labors, and penances. Therefore, not to lose time and trouble, we must endeavor never to act from the impulse of nature, interest, inclination, temper, or caprice, but always from the pure and single motive of doing the will of God, and accustom ourselves to this in all things. This is the most effectual, nay rather the only means of arriving safely and quickly at union with God.----St. Vincent de Paul
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Post by: Miseremini on December 28, 2023, 11:48:19 PM
"We must defend God's kingdom as any other kingdom."

                                                      Thomas Becket

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Post by: Gray2023 on December 29, 2023, 12:33:47 PM
To attain union with God, all the adversities that He sends us are necessary; for His only aim is to consume all our evil inclinations from within and from without. Therefore, slights, injuries, insults, infirmities, poverty, abandonment by friends and relatives, humiliations, temptations of the devil and many other things opposed to our human nature----all are extremely needed by us, that we may fight until by means of victories we have extirpated all our evil inclinations, so that we may feel them no longer. Nay more, until all adversities no longer seem bitter to us, but rather sweet for God, we shall never arrive at the divine union.----St. Catherine of Genoa
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 02, 2024, 12:05:47 PM
We must begin with a strong and constant resolution to give ourselves wholly to God, professing to Him, in a tender, loving manner, from the bottom of our hearts, that we intend to be His without any reserve, and then we must often go back and renew this same resolution.----St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 04, 2024, 04:04:46 AM
I hear nothing talked of but perfection; yet I see it practiced only by few. Everyone forms his own ideal of it. Some place it in simplicity of attire; some in austerity; some in almsgiving; some in frequent reception of the Sacraments; this one, in prayer; that one, in passive contemplation; and another, in the gifts called gratuitous. But, by a general mistake, they take the effects for the cause, and the means for the end. For my part, I know of no other perfection than loving God with all the heart, and our neighbor as ourselves. Whoever imagines any other kind of perfection deceives himself, for the whole accuмulation of virtues without this is but a heap of stones. And if we do not immediately and perfectly enjoy this treasure of holy love, the fault is in us. We are too slow and ungenerous with God, and do not give ourselves up entirely to Him, as the Saints did.----St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 06, 2024, 04:38:57 PM
Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny self, to take up the cross and to follow Him. Now, who denies himself and takes up his cross and follows Christ better than he who seeks not to do his own will, but always that of God? Behold, now, how little is needed to become a Saint! Nothing more than to acquire the habit of willing, on every occasion, what God wills.----St. Vincent de Paul
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 07, 2024, 02:17:07 PM
A servant of God signifies one who has a great charity towards his neighbor, and an inviolable resolution to follow in everything the Divine Will; who bears with his own deficiencies, and patiently supports the imperfections of others.----St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Soubirous on January 07, 2024, 04:01:53 PM
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 09, 2024, 05:19:09 PM
Although in entering religion and taking care not to offend God, we may appear to have done everything, ah! how often certain worms remain, which do not allow themselves to be perceived until they have gnawed away our virtues! Such worms are self-love, self- esteem, harsh judgments of others, though in trifles, and a great want of charity towards our neighbor. But if, indeed, by dragging on, we satisfy our obligations, we do not do it with that perfection which God would expect of us.----St. Teresa
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 10, 2024, 08:02:40 AM
Observe that perfection is not acquired by sitting with our arms folded, but it is necessary to work in earnest, in order to conquer ourselves and to bring ourselves to live, not according to our inclinations and passions, but according to reason, our Rule, and obedience. The thing is hard, it cannot be denied, but necessary. With practice, however, it becomes easy and pleasing.-----St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 11, 2024, 10:43:06 AM
All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever has done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.----St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 12, 2024, 01:08:40 PM
I wish I could persuade spiritual persons that the way of perfection does not consist in many devices, nor in much cogitation, but in denying themselves completely and yielding themselves to suffer everything for love of Christ. And if there is failure in this exercise, all other methods of walking in the spiritual way are merely a beating about the bush, and profitless trifling, although a person should have a very high contemplation and communication with God.----St. John of the Cross
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Post by: Miseremini on January 12, 2024, 04:40:13 PM
"To pray devoutly you must start with a reverent Sign of the Cross"
                                                       St Bernadette

(Watching some people it looks like they're swatting flies)
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 13, 2024, 06:56:13 PM
The greatest fault among those who have a good will is that they wish to be something they cannot be, and do not wish to be what they necessarily must be. They conceive desires to do great things for which, perhaps, no opportunity may ever come to them, and meantime neglect the small which the Lord puts into their hands. There are a thousand little acts of virtue, such as bearing with the importunities and imperfections of our neighbors, not resenting an unpleasant word or a trifling injury, restraining an emotion of anger, mortifying some little affection, some ill-regulated desire to speak or to listen, excusing an indiscretion, or yielding to another in trifles. These are things to be done by all; why not practice them? The occasions for great gains come but rarely, but of little gains many can be made each day; and by managing these little gains with judgment, there are some who grow rich. Oh, how holy and rich in merits we should make ourselves, if we but knew how to profit by the opportunities which our vocation supplies to us! Yes, yes, let us apply ourselves to follow well the path which is close before us, and to do well on the first opportunity, without occupying ourselves with thoughts of the last, and thus we shall make good progress.----St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 14, 2024, 02:57:49 PM
Our greatest fault is that we wish to serve God in our way, not in His way----according to our will, not according to His will. When He wishes us to be sick, we wish to be well; when He desires us to serve Him by sufferings, we desire to serve Him by works; when He wishes us to exercise charity, we wish to exercise humility; when He seeks from us resignation, we wish for devotion, a spirit of prayer, or some other virtue. And this is not because the things we desire may be more pleasing to Him, but because they are more to our taste. This is certainly the greatest obstacle we can raise to our own perfection, for it is beyond doubt that if we wish to be Saints according to our own will, we shall never be so at all. To be truly a Saint, it is necessary to be one according to the will of God.----St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 15, 2024, 09:39:17 AM
Two mistakes I find common among spiritual persons. One is that they ordinarily measure their devotion by the consolations and satisfactions which they experience in the way of God, so that if these happen to be wanting, they think they have lost all devotion. No, this is no more than a sensible devotion. True and substantial devotion does not consist in these things, but in having a will resolute, active, ready, and constant not to offend God, and to perform all that belongs to His service. The other mistake is that if it ever happens to them to do anything with repugnance and weariness, they believe they have no merit in it. On the other hand, there is then far greater merit; so that a single ounce of good done thus by a sheer spiritual effort, amidst darkness and dullness and without interest, is worth more than a hundred pounds done with great facility and sweetness, since the former requires a stronger and purer love. And how great soever may be the aridities and repugnance of the sensible part of our soul, we ought never to lose courage, but pursue our way as travelers treat the barking of dogs.----St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Soubirous on January 16, 2024, 09:35:44 AM
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Post by: Soubirous on January 16, 2024, 09:51:49 AM
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Post by: Soubirous on January 16, 2024, 09:54:10 AM
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Post by: Soubirous on January 16, 2024, 10:02:42 AM
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 16, 2024, 12:39:05 PM
We are not to regard great favors from God so much as virtues, but consider who serves the Lord with the greatest mortification, humility, and purity of conscience; for the latter without the former will be the more holy.----St. Teresa
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 17, 2024, 07:59:36 PM
Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do? Here is the true token of a soul absolutely perfect: when one has succeeded in leaving behind his own will to such a degree as no longer to seek, to aim, or to desire to do what he would will, but only what God wills.----St. Bernard
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Post by: Soubirous on January 19, 2024, 11:26:10 AM
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[The quote is also attributed to Saint Athanasius from the time of the Arian heresy.]
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 20, 2024, 05:50:18 PM
Give yourself in earnest to the acquisition of virtue; otherwise, you will remain always a dwarf in it. Never believe that you have acquired a virtue, if you have not made proof of it in resisting its contrary vice, and unless you practice it faithfully on suitable occasions which, for this reason, ought never to be avoided, but rather desired, sought, and embraced with eagerness----St. Teresa
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Post by: Soubirous on January 21, 2024, 06:42:34 PM
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Post by: Soubirous on January 23, 2024, 02:29:52 PM
"If from time to time you feel the sword falling on you with double or treble force, this also should be seen as sheer joy and the mark of love. This is that enviable and blessed Cross of Christ . . . the Cross in which alone we must make our boast." - St. Raymond of Peñafort

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"May you never be numbered among those whose house is peaceful, quiet and free from care; those on whom the Lord’s chastisement does not descend; those who live out their days in prosperity, and in the twinkling of an eye will go down to hell." - St. Raymond of Peñafort
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 23, 2024, 10:28:27 PM
When one is going on really well, he feels in himself a continual desire to advance; and the more he grows in perfection, the more this desire grows. Since his light is increasing every day, it always seems to him that he has no virtue and is doing no good; or if, perhaps, he sees that he has and is doing some good, it yet appears to him very imperfect, and he makes little account of it. And so it comes to pass that he always goes on laboring for the acquisition of virtue without ever being weary. ----St. Lawrence Justinian
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 26, 2024, 09:41:41 PM
Let us learn from Jesus in the manger, to hold the things of the world in such esteem as they deserve.----St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 27, 2024, 06:36:55 AM
If you wish for a method brief and compendious, one which contains in itself all other methods and is most efficacious in conquering all temptations and difficulties, and acquiring perfection, this is the exercise of the presence of God.----St. Basil
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Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on January 29, 2024, 04:19:29 PM
Archbishop Fulton Sheen


“[Satan] will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the [Catholic] Church. . . . It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content.”
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Post by: Gray2023 on January 31, 2024, 03:37:26 PM
As it is most certain that the teaching of Christ cannot deceive, if we would walk securely, we ought to attach ourselves to it with the greatest confidence and to profess openly that we live according to it, and not to the maxims of the world, which are all deceitful. This is the fundamental maxim of all Christian perfection.----St. Vincent de Paul
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Post by: Miseremini on February 04, 2024, 05:20:42 PM
You have within you everything that you need to purchase the kingdom of heaven.
Joy will be purchased by your sorrow,
rest by your labour
glory by your humiliation, and
eternal life by your passing death.
                         St. Augustine
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Post by: Gray2023 on February 11, 2024, 02:52:02 PM
Our Lord says that whoever wishes to become greatest of all must make himself least of all. This is a truth that all Christians believe; how happens it, then, that so few practice it?----St. Vincent de Paul
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Post by: Gray2023 on February 13, 2024, 07:51:32 PM
When one is very remarkable for virtue, and truly great before God, and favored and esteemed by Him, yet with all this remains little and vile in his own eyes----here is that humility so grateful to God and so rare among men, which was found most perfect in the Blessed Virgin, who, on hearing herself chosen to be the Mother of God, acknowledged herself to be a servant and handmaiden.----St. Bernard
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Post by: Gray2023 on February 14, 2024, 03:58:22 PM
Vain self-complacency and the desire of making a show of being spoken of, of having our conduct praised, and of hearing it said that we succeed well and are doing wonders----this is an evil which makes us forget God, which infects our holiest actions, and is, of all vices, the most injurious to progress in the spiritual life. I do not understand how anyone can believe and hold it as a truth of faith that he who exalts himself shall be abased if he desires to pass for a man of worth, a person of prudence, foresight, and ability.----St. Vincent de Paul
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Post by: Gray2023 on February 16, 2024, 03:17:30 PM
When you see anyone who desires esteem and honors and avoids contempt, and who, when contradicted or neglected, shows resentment and takes it ill, you may be sure that such a one, though he were to perform miracles, is very far from perfection, for all his virtue is without foundation.----St. Thomas Aquinas
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Post by: Gray2023 on February 17, 2024, 04:13:57 PM
I am despised and derided, and I resent it; just so do peacocks and apes. I am despised and derided, and I rejoice at it; thus did the Apostle. This is the deepest grade of humility, to be pleased with humiliation and abjection, as vain minds are pleased with great honors; and to find pain in marks of honor and esteem, as they find it in contempt and affronts.----St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Gray2023 on February 18, 2024, 06:48:25 PM
I pray you, do not make much account of certain trifles which some call wrongs and grievances; for we seem to manufacture these things out of straws, like children, with our points of honor. A truly humble person never believes that he can be wronged in anything. Truly, we ought to be ashamed to resent whatever is said or done against us; for it is the greatest shame in the world to see that our Creator bears so many insults from His creatures, and that we resent even a little word that is contradictory. Let contemplative souls, in particular, take notice that if they do not find themselves quite resolved to pardon any injury or affront which may be inflicted upon them, they cannot trust much to their prayer. For the soul which God truly unites to Himself by so lofty a method of prayer, feels none of these things, and no longer cares whether she is esteemed or not, or whether she is spoken well of or ill; nay rather honors and repose give her more pain than dishonor and trials.----St. Teresa
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Post by: Gray2023 on February 19, 2024, 08:58:00 AM
Whoever is humble, on being humiliated, humbles himself the more; on being rejected, rejoices in the disgrace; on being placed in low and mean occupations, acknowledges himself to be more honored than he deserves, and performs them willingly; and only abhors and avoids exalted and honorable offices.----St. Jane Frances de Chantal
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Post by: Gray2023 on February 20, 2024, 09:20:46 AM
Missionaries should rejoice to be considered poor in talent, birth and virtue, the dregs and off scouring of the world. They should be glad whenever there arises any opportunity for abjection and contempt, even though it be not for themselves alone, but also extending to the Congregation. And by this test they will be able to know what progress they are making in humility.----St. Vincent de Paul
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Post by: Gray2023 on February 21, 2024, 10:20:06 PM
To bear abasement and reproach is the touchstone of humility, and, at the same time, of true virtue. For in this, one becomes conformed to Jesus Christ, Who is the true model of all solid virtues.----St. Francis de Sales
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Post by: Gray2023 on February 22, 2024, 08:36:36 AM
He who is truly humble must desire in truth to be despised, mocked, persecuted, and blamed, although wrongfully. If he wishes to imitate Christ, how can he do it better than in this way? Oh, how wise will he, one day, be seen to be, who rejoiced in being accounted vile and even a fool! for such was wisdom itself esteemed.----St. Teresa
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Post by: Soubirous on February 22, 2024, 05:10:34 PM
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Post by: Gray2023 on February 23, 2024, 03:36:16 PM
If we should well consider all that is human and imperfect in us, we should find but too much cause to humiliate ourselves before God and men, even before our inferiors.----St. Vincent de Paul
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Post by: Gray2023 on February 24, 2024, 08:17:37 PM
In my opinion, we shall never acquire true humility unless we raise our eyes to behold God. Looking upon His greatness, the soul sees better her own littleness; beholding His purity, she is the more aware of her own uncleanness; considering His patience, she feels how far she is from being patient; in fine, turning her glance upon the Divine perfections, she discovers in herself so many imperfections that she would gladly close her eyes to them.----St. Teresa
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Post by: Gray2023 on February 25, 2024, 01:34:49 PM
One who wishes to become truly holy ought not, except in a few unusual cases, to excuse himself, although that for which he is blamed be not true. Jesus Christ acted thus. He heard Himself charged with evil which He had not done, but said not a word to free Himself from the disgrace.----St. Philip Neri
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Post by: Gray2023 on February 27, 2024, 09:02:00 AM
Here is one of the best means to acquire humility: fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.----Thomas a Kempis
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Post by: Gray2023 on February 28, 2024, 08:49:09 AM
All those who have truly wished to arrive at the possession of humility have applied themselves with all their power to the practice of humiliation, because they know that this is the quickest and shortest road thereto.----St. Bernard
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Post by: Gray2023 on March 01, 2024, 04:11:59 PM
The first step to be taken by one who wishes to follow Christ is, according to Our Lord's Own words, that of renouncing himself---that is, his own senses, his own passions, his own will, his own judgment, and all the movements of nature, making to God a sacrifice of all these things, and of all their acts, which are surely sacrifices very acceptable to the Lord. And we must never grow weary of this; for if anyone having, so to speak, one foot already in Heaven, should abandon this exercise, when the time should come for him to put the other there, he would run much risk of being lost.----St. Vincent de Paul
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Post by: Gray2023 on March 02, 2024, 02:17:55 PM
The measure of our advancement in the spiritual life should be taken from the progress we make in the virtue of mortification; for it should be held as certain that the greater violence we shall do ourselves in mortification, the greater advance we shall make in perfection.----St. Jerome
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Post by: Gray2023 on March 04, 2024, 08:42:10 AM
He who allows himself to be ruled or guided by the lower and animal part of his nature, deserves to be called a beast rather than a man.----St. Vincent de Paul
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Post by: Gray2023 on March 05, 2024, 09:55:45 AM
Whoever makes little account of exterior mortifications, alleging that the interior are more perfect, shows clearly that he is not mortified at all, either exteriorly or interiorly.----St. Vincent de Paul
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Post by: Gray2023 on March 06, 2024, 01:44:28 PM
Mortification of the appetite is the A, B, C of spiritual life. Whoever cannot control himself in this, will hardly be able to conquer temptations more difficult to subdue.----St. Vincent de Paul