Showing posts with label All Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label All Quotes. Show all posts

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Don't be Sorry to be Nothing

"Don't worry if they see your defects; the offence against God and the scandal you may give; that is what should worry you. Apart from this, may you be known for what you are and be despised. Don't be sorry to be nothing, since then Jesus will have to be everything for you."

- Saint Escriva (The Way, 596)

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The Best Time You Will Spend on Earth

"The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the best time you will spend on earth. Each moment that you spend with Jesus will deepen your union with Him and make your soul everlastingly more glorious and beautiful in Heaven, and will help bring about everlasting peace on earth."

- Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Thursday, September 29, 2011

She Looked Down to Heaven

”Every mother, when she picks up the young life that has been born to her, looks up to the heavens to thank God for the gift which made the world young again. But here was a mother, a madonna, who did not look up. She looked down to Heaven, for this was Heaven in her arms.”

- Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

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Monday, September 26, 2011

1 Thes 5:16-18

"Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus." - 1 Thes 5:16-18

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Cast All Your Worries Upon Him

"Cast all your worries upon him because he cares for you."

(1 Peter 5:7)

Friday, July 8, 2011

When Did God's Love for You Begin?

"When did God's love for you begin? When He began to be God. When did He begin to be God? Never, for He has always been without beginning and without end, and so He has always loved you from eternity."

- St. Frances de Sales

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

"You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."

- C.S. Lewis

Virtues are Formed by Prayer

"Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven."

- Saint Ephraem

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Nunc Coepi! -- Now I Begin!

"Nunc coepi! -- now I begin! This is the cry of a soul in love which, at every moment, whether it has been faithful or lacking in generosity, renews its desire to serve -- to love! -- God with a wholehearted loyalty."

- St. Escriva (Furrow, 161)

Monday, May 9, 2011

Never utter in your neighbor's absence...

"Never utter in your neighbor's absence what you would not say in their presence."

- Saint Mary Magdalene of Pazzi

You Don't Know How to Pray?

"You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't even know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun."

- Saint Josemaria Escriva

To Pray is to Talk to God, But About What?

"To pray is to talk to God, but about what? About Him, about yourself; joys, sorrows, successes, and failures, noble ambitions, daily worries, weaknesses! And acts of thanksgiving and petitions: and Love and reparation. In a word: to get to know Him and to get to know yourself: to get acquainted."

- Saint Josemaria Escriva

Thursday, April 28, 2011

His Inexhaustible Mercy

"When disturbed by passions and misfortunes, may the sweet hope of his inexhaustible mercy sustain us. Let us hasten confidently to the tribunal of penance where He awaits us at every instant with the anxiety of a father; and even though we are aware of our inability to repay Him, let us have no doubts about the solemn pardon pronounced over our errors. Let us place a tombstone over them, just as the Lord has done."

- Saint Padre Pio

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

We are the Easter People...

"We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song!"

- Pope John Paul II

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Could You Not Watch One Hour With Me?

"...The Holy Hour is not a devotion; it is a sharing in the work of redemption. Our Blessed Lord used the words "hour" and "day" in two totally different connotations in the Gospel of John. "Day" belongs to God; the "hour" belongs to evil. Seven times in the Gospel of John, the word "hour" is used, and in each instance it refers to the demonic, and to the moments when Christ is no longer in the Father's Hands, but in the hands of men. In the Garden, our Lord contrasted two "hours" - one was the evil hour "this is your hour" - with which Judas could turn out the lights of the world. In contrast, our Lord asked: "Could you not watch one hour with Me?". In other words, he asked for an hour of reparation to combat the hour of evil; an hour of victimal union with the Cross to overcome the anti-love of sin."

- Archbishop Fulton Sheen, A Treasure in Clay

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Chosen From All Eternity

You and I belong to Christ’s family, for he himself has chosen us before the foundation of the world, to be saints, to be blameless in his sight, for love of him, having predestined us to be his adopted children through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his Will (Eph 1:4-5). We have been chosen gratuitously by Our Lord. His choice of us sets us a clear goal. Our goal is personal sanctity, as St. Paul insistently reminds us, haec est voluntas Dei: sanctificatio vestra (1 Thess 4:3), this is the Will of God: your sanctification. Let us not forget, then, that we are in our Master’s sheepfold in order to achieve that goal.

- St. Escriva, Friends of God, 2

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Saints are Made, Not Born

"Certainly our goal is both lofty and difficult to attain. But please do not forget that people are not born holy. Holiness is forged through a constant interplay of God’s grace and the correspondence of man. As one of the early Christian writers says, referring to union with God, “Everything that grows begins small. It is by constant and progressive feeding that it gradually grows big”. So I say to you, if you want to become a thorough-going Christian – and I know you are willing, even though you often find it difficult to conquer yourself or to keep climbing upwards with this poor body of ours – then you will have to be very attentive to the minutest of details, for the holiness that Our Lord demands of you is to be achieved by carrying out with love of God your work and your daily duties, and these will almost always consist of small realities."

- St. Escriva, Friends of God, 7

Sunday, March 20, 2011

One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church

"This is holy Church, the one Church, the true Church, the Catholic Church, fighting against all heresies; she can fight, but she cannot be conquered. All heresies are expelled from her as if they were dead branches pruned from the vine; she herself, however, remains fixed in her root, in her vine, in her charity. The gates of hell shall not prevail against her."

- St. Augustine of Hippo

Prayer is...

"Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness."

- St. John Chrysostom

Saturday, March 19, 2011

A New Creation

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."

- 2 Corinthians 5:17