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Quote/s of the Day – 8 November – the weeds appeared as well

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If you love the world you will be engulfed, for the world knows only how to shipwreck a soul, it knows not how to save it.

St Augustine

What are the miseries which worldlings have to endure? Alas! everything seems to conspire to make them groan without being allowed too complain.

Pere Croiset SJ

The world is that mass of wicked men and impious libertines who refuse to believe in the truths of the gospel, because they wage war with their vices, because they confute the Saviour’s maxims, despise His mysteries, ignore His precepts, and profane His sacraments. In short, the world is the majority who follow its maxims. It is this world which you have to hate in your baptism, and which you are taught to confute, condemn, and wage war against.

Massillion

All the land is infected through the wickedness of those who dwell on it. Blood has tasted blood, the father scandalise his child, the brother lays snares for his brother, and the husband seeks for a divorce.

Massillion

The chains that bind us to the world, are pleasing to look at but hard to bear, the harm they inflict is certain, the pleasure they promise very doubtful, Those who wear them are ever busy, but never exempt from dread. Those who follow the maxims of the world experience nothing but misery.

St Augustine

There are still some amongst us, who keep themselves unspotted from the world, who imitate the early Christians.

St John Chrysostom

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Quote/s of the Day – 11 September – The World

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For if anyone thinks himself to be something, whereas he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Gal 5:25-26; 6:1-10

God alone can satisfy a soul, calm its anxieties, its suspicions, its fears, and every trouble that stirs within our hearts. Whenever I tried to fill up the aching void in my heart, said St Augustine, I found that nothing equalled the happiness I felt, in trying to do my duty in serving God.

Pere Croiset S.J

The world, it is that raging sea, on which are tossed to and fro vessels containing a crowd of sinners, whose cares and projects depend on the fortunes or misfortunes of life, whose aim seems to be to build palaces on sand, whose hopes are fixed on the fleeting enjoyments of this life, who seek for joys and pleasures which are a thousand times more fatiguing than they are worth.

Massillon

Ah! who can walk with a firm unshaken step in the midst of the passions of the world, amidst its seductive charms? Let us then think and meditate on the words of Job, ‘The life of man on earth is a continual warfare,’.

St Ambrose

The world is a monstrous assemblage of party spirits who revile each other, and regard each other with contempt, envy, and jealousy, void of honour and fair dealing.

Massillon

The world is more dangerous when it flatters us, than when it ill-treats us, we should be more careful of trusting it, when it invites us to love it, than when it admonishes us and compels us to despise it. They who follow the maxims of the world, experience nothing but misery, and the flattering expectation of happiness is delusive and vain. Would you wish not to be an enemy of God? Do not be a friend of the world.

St Augustine