QUOTATION: Correcting People in Error

We should not dispute stubbornly with anyone; rather we should patiently give our reasons with the purpose of declaring the truth lest our neighbor remain in error, and not that we should have the upper hand.

--St. Ignatius Loyola, To the Scholastics at Alcalá, 1543

QUOTATION: Blog Evangelisation

Young religious ought to enter blogs and correct the opinions of the youth, showing them the true Jesus.

--Cardinal Camillo Ruini, Vicar of Rome, Address to Union of Major Superiors of Italy, 2007.

QUOTATION: Religious Perfection

Religious perfection does not consist in having no failings, in never committing a fault, but in correcting our faults as soon as they are pointed out to us.

--St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Conferences and Instructions

QUOTATION: Religion

We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong.

--G.K. Chesterton, The Catholic Church and Conversion

QUOTATION: Correction

It is human to fall but angelic to rise again. There is much more virtue in repairing a fault committed than in never needing correction.

--St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Conferences and Instructions

QUOTATION: Correct Vice with its Opposite Virtue

If you are tempted to gluttony or sensuality, retrench something from your usual repasts, even though they in no way exceed the limits of sobriety, and give yourself with more fervor to fasting and other practices of devotion. If you are assailed by avarice, increase the amount of your alms and the number of your good works. If you feel the promptings of vainglory, lose no opportunity of accepting humiliations. Then, perhaps, the devil may fear to tempt you, seeing that you convert his snares into occasions of virtue, and that he only affords you opportunities of greater good.

--Louis de Granada, The Sinner's Guide

QUOTATION: Correction

Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who pretend to be tolerant because they wish to flatter——-those who thus fail to correct sinners——-actually cause them to suffer supreme loss and plot the destruction of that life which is their true life.

--St. Basil the Great

QUOTATION: The Duty of a Parish Priest

If a parish priest doesn't want to be damned, and if there is any loose living in his parish, he must spurn the very thought of public opinion and the fear of being despised or hated by his parishioners. Even if he were certain of being lynched when he came down from the pulpit, that must not stop him from speaking out against it.

--St. Jean Vianney, the Cure of Ars

QUOTATION: Correction in Anger

Correction given in anger, however tempered by reason, never has so much effect as that which is given altogether without anger;for the reasonable soul being naturally subject to reason, it is a mere tyranny which subjects it to passion, and whereinsoever reason is led by passion it becomes odious, and its just rule obnoxious.

--St. Francis de Sales

QUOTATION: Correction

To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection.

--St. Francis de Sales