Augustine (354-430), Confession, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Repentance, Struggle (with Sin)
That God has promised you pardon when you amend your life, I cannot deny. But tell me, pray: I agree and I grant you and I know that God has promised you forgiveness. But who has promised you tomorrow? Where you read that you will receive forgiveness, when you do penance, read for me also how much longer you have to live. It is not there, you say. Therefore you do not know how long more you have to live. Then reform your life, and be always prepared.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Detachment, Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), Page: Quotes, Possessions, Quote Author, Quote Topic
Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), Love (others), Page: Quotes, Possessions, Quote Author
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Blessed Virgin Mary, Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), Page: Quotes, Prayer (what), Quote Author, Quote Topic
The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Discipleship, Page: Quotes, Spiritual (life)
The way to our personal sanctification should daily lead us to the cross. This way is not a sorrowful one, because Christ himself comes to our aid, and in his company there is no room for sadness.
–Saint Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975)
Eucharist, Grace, John Vianney (1786-1859), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
What does Jesus Christ do in the Eucharist? It is God who, as our Savior, offers himself each day for us to his Father’s justice. If you are in difficulties and sorrows, he will comfort and relieve you. If you are sick, he will either cure you or give you strength to suffer so as to merit Heaven. If the devil, the world, and the flesh are making war upon you, he will give you the weapons with which to fight, to resist, and to win victory. If you are poor, he will enrich you with all sorts of riches for time and eternity. Let us open the door of his sacred and adorable Heart, and be wrapped about for an instant by the flames of his love, and we shall see what a God who loves us can do.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
