To abstain from sin…
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Wrong is wrong…
Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it, and right is right even if nobody is doing it.
–St. Augustine (354-430)
Whatever you possess…
Whatever you possess must not possess you; whatever you own must be under the power of your soul; for if your soul is overpowered powered by the love of this world’s goods, it will be totally at the mercy of its possessions. In other words, we make use of temporal things, but our hearts are set on what is eternal. Temporal goods help us on our way, but our desire must be for those eternal realities which are our goal.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
The tabernacle…
My television is the tabernacle.
–Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Pure heart and chaste body…
God wishes all of us to be saved through Jesus Christ the Son and to receive him with our pure heart and a chaste body.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
Temptations and trials…
No one ought to consider himself a true servant of God who is not tried by means of temptations and trials.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 – 1226)
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