Live as the Blessed Virgin lived….
Let us live as the Blessed Virgin lived: loving God only, desiring God only, trying to please God only in all that we do.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Humility is like…
Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Receive that gift…
The deeper our faith, the stronger our hope, the greater our desire, the larger will be our capacity to receive that gift, which is very great indeed. No eye has seen it; it has no color. No ear has heard it; it has no sound. It has not entered man’s heart; man’s heart must enter into it.
— Saint Augustine (354-430)
Bad company is…
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Let God be your hope…
Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honors, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Gratitude is the…
Gratitude is the mother of all virtues; ingratitude is the sin most offensive to Heaven.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
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