14 December 2022
He will give either what we ask, or what he knows to be more profitable
to us.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
On Humility
13 December 2022
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine
On Prayer
12 December 2022
Sometimes during a lengthy prayer only a few minutes are really pleasing to God, and constitute true prayer, true service to Him. The chief thing in prayer is the nearness of the heart to God.
Saint John of Kronstadt
Sometimes during a lengthy prayer only a few minutes are really pleasing to God, and constitute true prayer, true service to Him. The chief thing in prayer is the nearness of the heart to God.
Saint John of Kronstadt
Making Choices
11 December 2022
He who is making a choice ought to examine himself whether the affection that he has towards anything arises solely from love of God and regard to him.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
He who is making a choice ought to examine himself whether the affection that he has towards anything arises solely from love of God and regard to him.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
On Pursuing Virtue
10 December 2022
Let’s continue to be strenuous in pursuing virtue. Let’s not grow tired of seeking it, for our Lord has become a guide for us and for every person who has a desire for the virtues. And so that it might not be tedious for us, St. Paul became our example when he said, “I die daily” (see 1 Cor 15:31). Now, if we were to think each day that we had to die that day, we would never sin at all. This is the explanation of Paul’s saying. If in the morning we imagined that we would never last until evening, and if at evening we thought that we would never see morning, we would never sin.
Saint Athanasius the Great
Let’s continue to be strenuous in pursuing virtue. Let’s not grow tired of seeking it, for our Lord has become a guide for us and for every person who has a desire for the virtues. And so that it might not be tedious for us, St. Paul became our example when he said, “I die daily” (see 1 Cor 15:31). Now, if we were to think each day that we had to die that day, we would never sin at all. This is the explanation of Paul’s saying. If in the morning we imagined that we would never last until evening, and if at evening we thought that we would never see morning, we would never sin.
Saint Athanasius the Great
Charity and Devotion
9 December 2022
Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.
Saint Francis de Sales
Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.
Saint Francis de Sales
Do Not Sin
8 December 2022
But do not sin… expecting that you will repent; and do not succumb [to sin] being confident of forgiveness! Remember that death will not delay. Do not craftily seek means to draw nigh the pleasure of sin with a knavish mind! God is not mocked [Gal. 6:7]. His knowledge precedes your thoughts. Affliction will overtake you suddenly, and when you cry out, He will not answer you.
Saint Isaac of Syria
But do not sin… expecting that you will repent; and do not succumb [to sin] being confident of forgiveness! Remember that death will not delay. Do not craftily seek means to draw nigh the pleasure of sin with a knavish mind! God is not mocked [Gal. 6:7]. His knowledge precedes your thoughts. Affliction will overtake you suddenly, and when you cry out, He will not answer you.
Saint Isaac of Syria
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