Quote/s of the Day – 13 July – “Month of the Precious Blood” – Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Year A, Readings: Isaiah 1:10-17, Psalm 50:8-9, 16-17, 21, 23, Matthew 10:34–11:1
“Whoever finds his life, will lose it
and whoever loses his life, for my sake, will find it.”
Matthew 10:39
“Do not say,
this happened by chance,
while this came to be of itself.”
In all that exists’
there is nothing disorderly,
nothing indefinite,
nothing without purpose,
nothing by chance …
How many hairs are on your head?
God will not forget one of them.
Do you see how nothing,
even the smallest thing,
escapes the gaze of God?”
St Basil the Great (329-379)
Father & Doctor of the Church
“The Lord is near,
do not be anxious
about anything!”
St Augustine (354-430)
Great Western Father and Doctor of Grace
An excerpt from his Sermon 171
“In God’s name let us go on bravely.”
St Joan of Arc (1412-1431)
“We must offer ourselves to God,
like a clean, smooth canvas
and not worry ourselves,
about what God
may choose to paint on it
but at each moment,
feel only the stroke of His brush.”
Father Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751)
“Consider the shortness of time,
the length of eternity
and reflect how everything here below
comes to an end and passes by.
Of what use is it, to lean upon,
that which cannot give support?”
St Gerard Majella (1726-1755)
“We are blind,
left to ourselves,
we should take the wrong way,
we must leave it to Him.”
St John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
“I trust in God
and wish nothing else
but His will.”
St Zygmunt Szcesny Felinski (1822-1895)
“Do not be preoccupied
with the future,
God is in charge of it.”
St Léonie Françoise De Sales Aviat (1844-1914)
“The glance of God is like a fortifying dew,
a luminous ray, which fertilises and expands –
let us work without noise and without rest,
let us work before God’s eyes,
before God alone!”
Bl Luigi Orione (1872-1940)
“My past, O Lord, to Your mercy,
my present, to Your love,
my future, to Your Providence.”
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