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Quote/s of the Day – 21 October – Take up the armour

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Therefore, take up the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and stand in all things perfect.

Eph 6:10-17

This last judgement will not only be favourable and honourable to, but anxiously longed for by the just and the elect.

Bourdaloue

Truth, not eloquence, is to be sought in reading the Holy Scriptures; and every part must be read in the spirit in which it was written. Likewise we ought to read simple and devout books as willingly as learned and profound ones. We ought not to be swayed by the authority of the writer, whether he be a great literary light or an insignificant person, but by the love of simple truth. We ought not to ask who is speaking, but mark what is said.

The Imitation of Christ

The fruit which I destine for them, constrained by the prayers of My servants, is that I give them light, and that I wake up in them the hound of conscience, and make them smell the odor of virtue, and take delight in the conversation of My servants.

The Dialogue of St Catherine of Siena

If now we consider well, there is no person in the world more despised than Jesus Christ. We take more account of a peasant than we do of God; because we fear, if we have offended such a one, lest he being filled with wrath, should avenge himself ; but we commit offences against God over and over again as if God were not able to avenge Himself whenever it pleases Him so to do.

St Alphonsus Liguori

Since the time of Adam until the present, all the saints have had something to suffer, and most of them far more than have we. But they suffered with patience, always subject to the will of God, and soon their troubles were finished, and their happiness, which has begun, will never come to an end.

St John Vianney

Neither will you be deprived of this consolation on account of your sins, if from henceforth you will be careful to live well, and to serve this very grateful and gracious Lady. In the trials and temptations with which the devil will assail you, that he may throw you into despair, she will comfort you, and even come herself to assist you in death.

St Alphonsus Liguori

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Quote/s of the Day – 26 August – Ingratitude

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But one of them, seeing that he was made clean, returned, with a loud voice glorifying God, and he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks; and he was a Samaritan.

Luke 17:11-19

It would be a monstrous ingratitude to receive daily many blessings of the Divine Goodness, and not to acknowledge your gratitude, if not in deeds, at any rate, in words and canticles. Besides that, if this gratitude is due to Him, it is no less advantageous to ourselves. God has no need of us, but we have every need of Him.

St John Chrysostom

We ought to imitate the liberality of the soil, which repays, with usurious interest, the smallest seed that is sown therein. Holy Scripture compares an ungrateful person to a field or vine, which remains barren if not carefully cultivated, on the other hand, a grateful man is like a fruitful field, and which increases in value a hundred-fold.

St Ambrose

It is not every one who has the power of doing good, but we can always show our gratitude, for ingratitude is an unpardonable vice.

St Ambrose

A faithful and truly grateful soul ought to imitate the conduct of that prince mentioned in the Book of Esther, where it is said that he wrote down and kept an account of all the services his brave followers had done for him during his reign, in order that, by reading of them often, he was forced to acknowledge them. This is what a faithful soul should do, in order to remind him of the many graces and favours God has bestowed upon him during the whole course of his life.

Fr Louis Bourdaloue (1632 – 1704)

For those who cross by the Bridge, being still in the darkness of the body, find light, and, being mortal, find immortal life, tasting, through love, the light of Eternal Truth which promises refreshment to him who wearies himself for Me, who am grateful and just, and render to every man according as he deserves. Wherefore every good deed is rewarded, and every fault is punished. 

The Dialogue of St Catherine of Siena