QUOTATION: Occasions of Sin

Avoid idleness, dissipated companions, immodest conversations, and, more than all, evil occasions, especially where there is danger of incontinency; and for this reason one cannot be too cautious in keeping one's eyes from dwelling on any dangerous objects. For a person that does not avoid the voluntary occasions of sin, especially those which have frequently proved fatal to his innocence, it is morally impossible to persevere in the grace of God: He that loves the danger shall perish in it.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Way of Salvation and Perfection

QUOTATION: The Pope

The Pope is not an absolute monarch who thoughts and desires are law. On the contrary: the Pope’s ministry is a guarantee of obedience to Christ and to his Word. He must not proclaim his own ideas, but rather constantly bind himself and the Church to obedience to God’s Word, in the face of every attempt to adapt it or water it down, and every form of opportunism.

--Pope Benedict XVI, Holy Mass of the Possession of the Chair of the Bishop of Rome, May 7, 2005.

QUOTATION: Sadness

Excessive sadness seldom springs from any other source than pride.

--St. Philip Neri

QUOTATION: What Belief in God Means

To believe in God — for Christians — does not mean simply to believe that God exists, nor merely to believe that He is true. It means to believe by loving, to believe by abandoning oneself to God, uniting and conforming oneself to Him. 

--St. Anthony of Padua

QUOTATION: Trust in the Power of God

 Remember, never to fear the power of evil more than your trust in the power and love of God.

--St. Hermas, one of the Seventy.

QUOTATION: Failure to Confess

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

--St. Augustine

QUOTATION: Meditating on Hell

Those who in their meditation often go down to hell during life, will not easily go down there at death. Such meditations are a powerful arm against sin, and a useful aid to bring a man back from sin. Daily we see men kept from evildoing by the fear of the law's punishments. How much greater care should they not take on account of the punishment of hell, greater in its duration, in its bitterness and in its variety.

--St. Thomas Aquinas

QUOTATION: Wisdom and Religion

Wisdom precedes, religion follows; for the knowledge of God comes first, His worship is the result of knowledge.

--Lactantius

QUOTATION: The Salvation of Sinners

Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.

--St. Jerome

QUOTATION: Defend Life

Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.

--Pope Francis

QUOTATION: If the Church Gets with the Times...

If the Church marries the mood of the current age, it will become a widow in the next.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

QUOTATION: The Bible

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

--St. Augustine, Confessions

QUOTATION: Mothers as Co-Redeemers

The pains which a woman bears in labor help to expiate the sins of mankind, and draw their meaning from the Agony of Christ on the Cross. Mothers are, therefore, not only co-creators with God; they are co-redeemers with Christ in the flesh.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Three to Get Married

QUOTATION: Evil

In our time more than ever before, the chief strength of the wicked, lies in the cowardice and weakness of good men.

--Pope St. Pius X

QUOTATION: Love Thy Neighbour

The precept to love our neighbor requires us to be not only well-wishers, but well-doers.

--St. Thomas Aquinas

QUOTATION: Repentance

The problem is not that we are sinners, the problem is not repenting of sin, not being ashamed of what we have done.

--Pope Francis

QUOTATION: Mortification

That joke, that witty remark held on the tip of your tongue; the cheerful smile for those who annoy you; that silence when you’re unjustly accused; your friendly conversation with people whom you find boring and tactless; the daily effort to overlook one irritating detail or another in the persons who live with you… this, with perseverance, is indeed solid interior mortification.

--St. Josemaria Escriva

QUOTATION: Who Crucified Our Lord?

Nor did demons crucify him; it is you who have crucified him and crucify him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.

-- St. Francis of Assisi

QUOTATION: Evangelization

We are called to be fishers of men, not keepers of the aquarium.

--Cardinal Sean O’Malley

QUOTATION: Love and Hate

Sometimes hatred is charming, while love must show itself severe.

--St. Augustine