Quote of the Day - July 31: It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act contrary to their wishes (II:226).
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Quote of the Day - July 30: In order to become soundly virtuous it is advisable to make good practical resolution concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying them out afterward. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one’s imagination (II:217).
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Quote of the Day - July 29: Take care of your poor life. Be content with consuming it little by little for Divine Love. It is not your own; it belongs to the Author of Life, for love of whom you must preserve it until He asks it of you (II:211).
Quote of the Day - July 28: God compensates for and accomplishes in a divine way what men and women are not able to do in a human way (II:199).
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Quote of the Day - July 27: Although you do not have so many talents, Our Lord will increase them for you, if He chooses (II:191).
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Quote of the Day - July 26: Your concerns do not depend on a house, but on the continuation of God’s blessing on the work (II:189).
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Quote of the Day - July 25: I cannot tell you how much alms have diminished here and the difficulty of finding any loans. Everyone is being affected by the misery of the age (II:171).
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Quote of the Day - July 24: I beg Our Lord to reward you and to increase His love in you (II:169).
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Quote of the Day - July 23: How good God is to those who detach themselves from the affections of the world to unite themselves to Him (II:160).
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Quote of the Day - July 22: Zeal which goes outside the enclosure of love of the neighbor is no longer zeal, but the passion of antipathy (II:157).
Quote of the Day - July 21: All those things are nothing but exercises for your purgation, illumination, and perfection, and so that you can sympathize with those whom you see in similar dispositions. It is God’s plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptation of mind and body by which others can be tormented (II:152-153).
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Quote of the Day - July 20: On God’s road, not to advance is to fall back since one never remains in the same condition (II:146).
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Quote of the Day - July 18: Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice (II:146).
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Quote of the Day - July 17: Have great confidence in God, really give yourself to Him so that he may direct you and be Himself the Superior (II:140).
Quote of the Day - July 16: Let us set about stripping ourselves entirely of affection for anything that is not God, be attached to things only for God and according to God, and let us seek and establish His kingdom first of all in ourselves, and then in others (II:122).
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Quote of the Day - July 15: We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others (II:113).
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Quote of the Day - July 14: We must make a rule that they may not, under any pretext whatsoever, eat what is intended for the poor (II:107).
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Quote of the Day - July 13: Our Lord proclaims the idleness and sensuality of Magdalen to be more agreeable to Him than the less considerate zeal of Martha (II:85).
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Quote of the Day - July 12: Zeal is the soul of the virtues (II:84).
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Quote of the Day - July 11: It is easy to go from deficiency to excess of the virtues, from being just to becoming rigid, and from zealous to inconsiderate (II:84).
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Quote of the Day - July 10: How little it takes to be very holy: to do the Will of God in all things (II:47).
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Quote of the Day - July 9: Roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness (II:22).
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Quote of the Day - July 8: Was it not necessary for Christ to be humbled and brought low before man in order to get him to accept the gentle yoke of His dominion and His guidance? (II:7).
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Quote of the Day - July 7: A priest should be more perfect than a religious as such, and a bishop even more so (II:5).
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Quote of the Day - July 6: We must hold as an irrefutable maxim that the difficulties we have with our neighbor arise more from our immortified moods than from anything else (I:597).
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Quote of the Day - July 5: The works God Himself is accomplishing are never spoiled by the inactivity of men and women (I:588).
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Quote of the Day - July 4: God takes away the fear of death from those who have feared it during their life and who have practiced charity toward the poor (I:587).
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Quote of the Day - July 3: We must act against what is painful and either break our heart or soften it to get it ready for anything (I:579).
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Quote of the Day - July 2: We must act against what is painful and either break our heart or soften it to get it ready for anything (I:579).
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Quote of the Day - July 1: No matter where we are or what we are doing, we will always be tempted and distressed; that is our cross. If we wish to follow Jesus Christ, we must carry it (I:562).
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Quote of the Day - June 30: God is sovereignly glorified by our abandonment to His direction, without our discussing the reason for His Will, except to say that His Will is His reason and His reason is His Will (I:551).
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Quote of the Day - June 29: There is no means of profiting by preaching if one does not preach from the depths of compassion (I:526).
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Quote of the Day - June 28: Bitterness has never served any purpose but to embitter (I:526).
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