The sacrament of Penance…
Now let me tell you something about the sacrament of Penance. To draw fruit from this sacrament, it is not enough to go to confession frequently. One must also honestly strive to not sin.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
Never trust ourselves…
We must never trust ourselves, for it is the devil’s way first to get us to feel secure, and then to make us fall.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Temptations are mastered…
As to temptations, some are mastered by flying from them, some by resisting them, and some by despising them.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Souls fall away…
Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Two serious evils…
In order that what we have said may be the more clearly and fully understood, it will be well to set down here and state how these desires are the cause of two serious evils in the soul: the one is that they deprive it of the Spirit of God, and the other is that the soul wherein they dwell is wearied, tormented, darkened, defiled and weakened
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
The root of all evil…
The root of all evil is ‘I’, ‘Me,’ ‘Mine.’
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
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