“Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess you have given me. I surrender it all to you to be disposed of according to your will. Give me only your love and your grace – with these I […]
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“Do not say then: ‘Tomorrow I shall be converted, tomorrow I shall please God, and all that I shall have done today and yesterday will be forgiven me.’ What you say is true: God has promised forgiveness if you turn back to Him. But what He has not promised is that you will have tomorrow
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The girding of our loins (Luke 12:35) signifies the readiness of the mind to work hard in every thing praiseworthy…the human mind is awake when it repels any tendency to slumber off into that carelessness that often is the means of bringing it into subjection to every kind of wickedness. When sunk in stupor, the
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God for five minutes of prayer, they protest that it is too long. – Bishop Fulton Sheen
“Lord, watch out for me today lest I betray you yet again today.” (Taken from a quote by St Phillip Neri}
“I can see thanks to the sun light, but if I close my eyes, I cannot see; but this is not the fault of the sun, but mine” – Saint Thomas Aquinas
We “wander in a circle, longing after something to gratify (our) yearnings, yet madly rejecting that which alone can bring (us) to (the) desired end”
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“possess and love nothing that your are not ready to give up at the first sign” – Words of Our Lord to Sr. Josefa Menendez
“possess and love nothing that your are not ready to give up at the first sign” – Words of Our Lord to Sr. Josefa Menendez
“Never mind the drink. One Communion more and then eternity.” – St Elizabeth Seton (on her deathbed)
