Spiritual discouragement…
Doesn’t God consider spiritual discouragement worse than any other sin? Yes indeed!
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Humility implies strength…
Humility implies not weakness, rather the strength that comes from self-knowledge.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Three sorts of prayer…
Prayer is of three sorts. The one is perpetual: it is holy perpetual desire, which prays in the sight of God… for this desire directs all thy works, spiritual and corporal, to His honor, and therefore it is called perpetual…The other kind is vocal prayer, when the offices or other prayers are said aloud. This is ordained to reach the third – that is, mental prayer: your soul reaches this when it uses vocal prayer in prudence and humility, so that while the tongue speaks the heart is not far from God… And whenever one felt one’s mind to be visited by God, so that it was drawn to think of its Creator in any wise, it ought to abandon vocal prayer, and to fix its mind with the force of love upon that wherein it sees God visit it.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
True goodness is unconscious…
The more saintly we become, the less conscious we are being holy. A child is cute so long as he does not know that he is cute. As soon as he thinks he is, he turns into a brat. True goodness is unconscious.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
We deceive ourselves…
Every person has a little corner in his heart he never wants anyone to venture into, even with a candle. That is why we deceive ourselves and why our neighbors know us better than we know ourselves.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Pay attention to Mary…
Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
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