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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Purity
« Reply #65 on: April 08, 2026, 06:33:16 PM »
As I have often told you, there is nothing so vile as the impure soul. There was once a saint who had asked the good God to show him one; and he saw that poor soul like a dead beast that has been dragged through the streets in the hot sun for a week.

— St. Jean Marie Vianney, Catechism on Impurity, from The Spirit of the Curé of Ars, translated by a priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, 1865
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Purity
« Reply #66 on: April 09, 2026, 09:58:35 PM »
“See, my children: our Lord was crowned with thorns to expiate our sins of pride; but for this accursed sin. He was scourged and torn to pieces, since He said Himself that after His flagellation all His bones might be counted.” — St. Jean Marie Vianney, Catechism on Impurity, from The Spirit of the Curé of Ars, translated by a priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, 1865
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Purity
« Reply #67 on: April 10, 2026, 08:39:09 PM »
On another occasion, a devout person, who was praying for the Saint, heard these words: "She for whom thou prayest is My dove, who has no guile in her, for she rejects from her heart as gall all the guile and bitterness of sin. She is My chosen lily, which I love to bear in My hands; for it is My delight and My pleasure to repose in the purity and innocence of this chaste soul…” — Life and Revelations of St. Gertrude the Great, Chapter I
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Purity
« Reply #68 on: April 11, 2026, 02:11:18 PM »
"If any offend not in words he is a perfect man " (James, iii. 2). Be careful, then, never to let slip an indecent word: for although you do not speak it with an ill intention, yet it may be hurtful to those that hear it. An evil word falling into a weak heart spreads itself like a drop of oil falling on linen: nay, it sometimes seizes on the heart in such a manner as to fill it with a thousand impure thoughts and temptations to sin, for as the poison of the body enters by the mouth, so the poison of the soul enters by the ear, and the tongue that utters it is a murderer.

— St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Chapter XXVII, Modesty in our words
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Purity
« Reply #69 on: Yesterday at 01:43:21 PM »
“In addition to all this, be very guarded in your intercourse with women, and beware of continuing alone with one for any length of time; for, according to St. Chrysostom, the enemy attacks men and women more vigorously when he finds them alone. He is bolder when there are no witnesses present to thwart his artifices.”

— Venerable Louis of Granada, The Sinner’s Guide, particular remedies for lust
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