Source of renewal…
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
–Saint John Paul (1920-2005)
Satan’s civilized religion…
What is Satan’s device in this day? … What is the world’s religion now? It has taken the brighter side of the Gospel—its tidings of comfort, its precepts of love; all darker, deeper views of man’s condition and prospects being comparatively forgotten. This is the religion natural to a civilized age, and well has Satan dressed and completed it into an idol of the Truth. … [Those] fearful images of Divine wrath with which the Scriptures abound … are explained away. Every thing is bright and cheerful. Religion is pleasant and easy.
–Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Pharmacy of the spirit…
The church, you see, is a pharmacy of the spirit, and those who come here ought to acquire some appropriate remedies, apply them to their own complaints, and go off the better for it.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
To touch the poor…
To touch the poor to know, love and serve God is to do in part what the Savior of the world came to do on earth, to bring about the Kingdom of God.
–Saint Joan Antide-Thouret (1765-1826)
Christians are enkindled…
Many lamps can be lit from one fire, and each one will shine out with the same nature of light. So it is when Christians are enkindled from that one nature and one divine fire, which is the Son of God. Then the lamps of their hearts are lit and burn brightly before him on the earth.
–Saint Macarius the Great (295-392)
Ignorance not malice…
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
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