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We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchic Church defines it thus.


Saint Ignatius of Loyola

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SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisibl...
RICHARD OF SAINT-VICTOR Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For wher...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Preach the gospel everywhere you go, and, if necessary, use words.
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long cours...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first o...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Punishment is justice for the unjust.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Hail, O bleeding Head and wounded, With a crown of thorns surrounded, Buffeted, and bruised an...
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by other...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Who loves me will love my dog also. [Fr., Que me amat, amet et canem meum.]
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. [Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat...
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of h...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Hell is full of good wishes or desires. [Fr., L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontes ou desirs.]
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
SAINT THERESA OF JESUS The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my deli...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means takin...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA May God protect me from gloomy saints.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph;...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that i...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Chur...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so gr...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces a...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of cleare...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA