Quote/s of the Day – 10 February – Readings: Genesis 2:4-9, 15-17, Psalms 104:1-2,27-28, 29-30, Mark 7:14-23
“The things that come out of a person are what defile him.”
Mark 7:15
“The evil speaker,
eats the flesh of his brother
and bites the body, of his neighbour.”
St John Chrysostom (347-407)
Father and Doctor of the Church
“The sky and the earth and the waters
and the things that are in them, the fishes
and the birds and the trees are not evil.
All these are good;
it is evil men who make this evil world.”
“What is reprehensible,
is that while leading good lives themselves
and abhorring those of wicked men,
some, fearing to offend,
shut their eyes to evil deeds
instead of condemning them
and pointing out their malice.”
St Augustine (354-407)
Father and Doctor of Grace
“…If I do not speak the truth,
I become a slave of the father of lies
and become a member of this father of lies.”
St Jerome Emiliani (1486-1537)
“Let the enemy rage at the gate;
let him knock, pound, scream, howl;
let him do his worst.
We know for certain,
that he cannot enter our soul,
except by the door of our consent.”
St Francis de Sales ((1567-1622)
Doctor of Charity
“We are generally the carpenters
of our own crosses.”
St Philip Neri (1515-1595)
“Sin is the assassin of the soul.”
St John Vianney (1786-1859)
“The power of evil men, lives,
on the cowardice of the good!”
St John Bosco (1815-1888)
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