Quote/s of the Day – 26 February – Matthew 13:44-52 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/
“The Kingdom of Heaven
is like a treasure
hidden in a field.”
Matthew 13:44
“Do you wish your prayer
to fly toward God?
Make for it two wings –
fasting and almsgiving!”
St Augustine (354-430)
Father and Doctor of Grace
“What is a man’s treasure
but the heaping up of profits
and the fruit of his toil?
For, whatever a man sows,
this too will he reap and each man’s gain,
matches his toil and where delight
and enjoyment are found,
there the heart’s desire is attached.
Now, there are many kinds of wealth
and a variety of grounds for rejoicing –
every man’s treasure is that, which he desires.
If it is based on earthly ambitions,
its acquisition makes men not blessed but wretched.
… By distributing what might be superfluous
to support the poor, they are amassing
imperishable riches, so that what they have
discreetly given, cannot be subject to loss.
They have properly placed those riches,
where their heart is – it is a most blessed thing,
to work to increase such riches,
rather than to fear that they may pass away.”
St Pope Leo the Great (400-461)
Father and Doctor of the Church
“Let your tongue be poor
with them in converse
but let your hands be rich
to distribute out of your abundance!”
St Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Doctor Caritatis
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