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Re: Saint quotes
« Reply #510 on: January 02, 2025, 11:19:07 AM »
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    • Quote from: 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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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #511 on: January 03, 2025, 09:34:56 AM »
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    • The Lord chiefly desires of us that we should be completely perfect, that we may be wholly one with Him. Let us aim, therefore, at whatever we need to reach this.----St. Teresa
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #512 on: January 07, 2025, 09:23:41 AM »
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    • Quote from: 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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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #513 on: January 08, 2025, 11:45:10 AM »
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    • To be perfect in one's vocation is nothing else than to perform the duties and offices to which one is obliged, solely for the honor and love of God, referring all to His glory. Whoever works in this manner may be called perfect in his state, a man according to the heart and will of God.----St. Francis de Sales
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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #514 on: January 10, 2025, 03:17:15 PM »
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    • Quote from: 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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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #515 on: January 14, 2025, 07:34:58 AM »
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    • Quote from: 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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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #516 on: January 15, 2025, 04:18:52 PM »
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    • Quote from: 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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    Re: Saint quotes
    « Reply #517 on: January 16, 2025, 01:18:06 PM »
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    • Quote from: 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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    « Reply #518 on: January 19, 2025, 01:10:47 PM »
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    • Do not let any occasion of gaining merit pass without taking care to draw some spiritual profit from it; as, for example, from a sharp word which someone may say to you; from an act of obedience imposed against your will; from an opportunity which may occur to humble yourself, or to practice charity, sweetness, and patience. All these occasions are gain for you, and you should seek to procure them; and at the close of that day, when the greatest number of them have come to you, you should go to rest most cheerful and pleased, as the merchant does on the day when he has had most chance for making money; for on that day business has prospered with him.----St. Ignatius Loyola
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    « Reply #519 on: January 20, 2025, 03:29:02 PM »
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    • Quote from: 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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    « Reply #520 on: January 21, 2025, 10:04:43 AM »
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    • 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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    « Reply #521 on: January 23, 2025, 10:19:56 AM »
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    • Quote from: 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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    « Reply #522 on: January 24, 2025, 01:59:58 PM »
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    • To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection.----St. Francis de Sales
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    « Reply #523 on: January 25, 2025, 11:46:51 AM »
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    • The finnest assurance that we can have in this world of being in the grace of God does not consist at all in sentiments of love to Him, but in complete and irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in the firm resolution never to consent to any sin either great or small.----St. Francis de Sales
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    « Reply #524 on: January 26, 2025, 08:14:34 PM »
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    • Quote from: 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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