Quote/s of the Day – 29 October
Our Times
“Speak the Truth
in a million voices.
It is silence that kills.”
“Nothing great is ever achieved,
without much enduring.”
“Start being brave about everything.
Drive out darkness and spread light.
Don’t look at your weaknesses.
Realise instead, that in Christ crucified,
you can do everything.”
St Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Doctor of the Church
“You cannot have two heavens –
it is impossible to enjoy yourself here
and afterward,
to reign with Christ.”
Thomas à Kempis CRSA (1380-1471)
“We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.”
“If we lived in a Country
where virtue was profitable,
common sense would make us saintly.
But since we see that avarice, anger,
pride and stupidity commonly profit,
far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought,
perhaps we must stand fast a little,
even at the risk of being heroes.”
“You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm,
just because you couldn’t control the winds.”
St Thomas More (1478-1535)
“Hate what the world seeks
and seek, what it avoids.”
St Ignatius Loyola SJ (1491-1556)
“Devotion to the
Most Sacred Heart,
is the Extraordinary Remedy,
for the Extraordinary needs
of our time.”
Pope Pius XI (1857-1939)
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