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To control anger it is above all necessary
(1) to practice humility, because pride is always at the bottom of anger;
(2) to resist the first impulse to anger;
(3) to keep silence when provoked and resolve not to act on the spur of the moment;
(4) to remember that often no injury or insult was intended; (5) to consider the example of Jesus;
(6) to practice meekness;
(7) to think of the injury you do to yourself and the scandal you may give by anger;
(8) to combine the motives of reason and faith by keeping silence when angry, by offering the injury to God and suffering it in patience.
Then, thank God for the occasion of self-conquest and the victory, and pray for the one who has injured you.
–Peter Geierman (1870-1929)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Tell everything to your spiritual father, and the Lord will have mercy on you and you will escape delusion. But if you think that you know more about the spiritual life than your spiritual father, and you stop telling him everything about yourself in confession, then you will immediately be allowed to fall into some sort of delusion, in order that you may be corrected.
–Saint Silouan the Athonite (1866-1938)
Acceptance, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
There is no doubt that at times we ourselves can be our own worst enemies. Maybe it’s because our self-love makes us see little mosquitoes as if they were elephants, or perhaps it might be that we lack submission to the will of God. I do know that this happens when we neglect prayer, mortification, and humility, but if we ask Our Lord for these virtues, we will receive them. I want you to be happy, at peace in all circumstances of your life, offering Our Lord your sorrows and your joys because everything comes from His loving hand for the good of our souls.
–Blessed Luisitia Josefa (1866-1937)
Acceptance, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
My child, try to see all things as coming from God. Receive everything that happens with serenity. Humble yourself, asking Him to do everything for you and continue working with tranquility for the good of your own soul which is the most urgent thing for you to do. Look to God, your soul, and eternity, and for all the rest, do not preoccupy yourself. For greater things you were born.
–Blessed Luisitia Josefa (1866-1937)
Eucharistic Adoration, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Make frequent visits to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and the devil will be powerless against you.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
Eucharist, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
The Most Holy Sacrament is a gift which has proceeded from pure love. For our salvation it was necessary, according to the decree of God, that the Redeemer should die, and, by the sacrifice of his life, satisfy divine justice for our sins; but what necessity was there that Jesus Christ, after having died for our redemption, should leave himself to us for our food? But this his love wished to do. He, says Saint Laurence Justinian, instituted the Eucharist for no other purpose than to show his great charity, for no other purpose than to make us understand the immense love which he bears us.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
