Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones (Saint Thomas More, +1535)
Quotes
Que soy era immaculada concepciou – I am the Immaculate Conception (the ‘Lady’ to Bernadette Soubirous, March 25, 1858)
If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today… The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone… we must be compassionate! (Saint Josephine[…]
Our lighted candles are a sign of the divine splendour of the one who comes to expel the dark shadows of evil and to make the whole universe radiant with the brilliance of his eternal light. Our candles also show how bright our souls should be when we go to meet Christ (Saint Sophronius, +638)
The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good. (Saint John Bosco)
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen (Prayer of Saint Thomas Aquinas)
You also ought to exercise pleasantness towards all, taking great care especially that what you have commanded may never be done by reason of force. For God has given free will to everyone, and therefore he forces no one but only indicates, calls, persuades. Sometimes, however, something will have to be done with a stronger[…]
The most important thing of all to him, however, was that he knew himself to be loved by Christ…To be separated from that love was, in his eyes, the greatest and most extraordinary of torments; the pain of that loss would alone have been hell, and endless, unbearable torture (Saint John Chrysostom on Saint Paul)
Just as every sort of gem, cast in honey, becomes brighter and more sparkling, each according to its colour, so each person becomes more acceptable and fitting in his own vocation when he sets his vocation in the context of devotion…in whatever situations we happen to be, we can and we must aspire to the[…]
The world mounts a double attack on the soldiers of Christ. It wheedles in order to lead them astray; but it also terrifies, in order to break them. Let us not be held fast by our own pleasures, let us not be terrified by someone else’s cruelty, and the world has been vanquished (Saint Augustine,[…]