Diary 453
“I am displeased when a soul yields to vain terrors… Most dear to Me is the soul that strongly believes in My goodness and has complete trust in Me.” – Jesus Christ to Saint Faustina (Diary, 453).
Saint Quote
St. Teresa of Calcutta
holiness is not the privilege of a few, but the obligation of all – St. Teresa of Calcutta
All is well
“All will go well, everything will go well” – St. Juliana of Norwich, English mystic of the fourteenth century
All is well
“All will go well, everything will go well” – St. Juliana of Norwich, English mystic of the fourteenth century
Following the commandments
“Jesus teaches us that the commandments are not to be understood as a minimum limit we should not exceed, but rather as an open path leading to a moral and spiritual way of perfection, whose most intimate impulse is love” – (John Paul II).
Eucharist
St. Cyril of Alexandria, Father and Doctor of the Church, wrote: “If the poison of pride is swelling up in you, turn to the Eucharist; and that Bread, which is your God humbling and disguising Himself, will teach you humility. If the fever of selfish greed rages in you, feed on this Bread; and you …
Prayer of Ignatius Loyola
“Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess you have given me. I surrender it all to you to be disposed of according to your will. Give me only your love and your grace – with these I …
Don’t procrastinate
“Do not say then: ‘Tomorrow I shall be converted, tomorrow I shall please God, and all that I shall have done today and yesterday will be forgiven me.’ What you say is true: God has promised forgiveness if you turn back to Him. But what He has not promised is that you will have tomorrow …
Gird you loins, avoid stupor
The girding of our loins (Luke 12:35) signifies the readiness of the mind to work hard in every thing praiseworthy…the human mind is awake when it repels any tendency to slumber off into that carelessness that often is the means of bringing it into subjection to every kind of wickedness. When sunk in stupor, the …
Adoration
It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God for five minutes of prayer, they protest that it is too long. – Bishop Fulton Sheen