You Can Say That Again!

[phatcatholic]

[quote name='got2luvjc' post='1014785' date='Jun 29 2006, 09:17 PM']
a classic I always enjoy:

"Preach the gospal If necessary, use words."
~St. Francis of Assisi~
[/quote]
i think its debatable as to whether he actually said that or not.

[Era Might]

"Yet I still did not quite reach or touch or grasp the goal, because I hesitated to die to death and to live to life."

--St. Augustine (From his Confessions)

That whole section where he talks about his inner struggle in the garden is amazing.

[franciscanheart]

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

--Prayer of Saint Francis of Assissi

[scardella]

Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ
- St. Jerome

[hierochloe]

With God,
I can accomplish great things.

-Saint Frances X. Cabrini

[Fides_et_Ratio]

I love St. John of the Cross
[quote]I live, but not in myself,
and I have such hope
that I die because I do not die.
1. I no longer live within myself
and I cannot live without God,
for having neither him nor myself
what will life be?
It will be a thousand deaths,
longing for my true life
and dying because I do not die.

2. This life that I live
is no life at all,
and so I die continually
until I live with you;
hear me, my God:
I do not desire this life,
I am dying because I do not die.

3. When I am away from you
what life can I have
except to endure
the bitterest death known?
I pity myself,
for I go on and on living,
dying because I do not die.

4. A fish that leaves the water
has this relief:
the dying it endures
ends at last in death.
What death can equal my pitiable life?
For the longer I live, the more drawn out is my dying.

5. When I try to find relief
seeing you in the Sacrament,
I find this greater sorrow:
I cannot enjoy you wholly.
All things are affliction
since I do not see you as I desire,
and I die because I do not die.

6. And if I rejoice, Lord,
in the hope of seeing you,
yet seeing I can lose you
doubles my sorrow.
Living in such fear
and hoping as I hope,
I die because I do not die.

7. Lift me from this death,
my God, and give me life;
do not hold me bound
with these bonds so strong;
see how I long to see you;
my wretchedness is so complete
that I die because I do not die.

8. I will cry out for death
and mourn my living
while I am held here
for my sins.
O my God, when will it be
that I can truly say:
now I live because I do not die?[/quote]

[she_who_is_not]

"My God, You have exceeded all my expectations."
St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face

[Akalyte]

[quote name='Tindomiel' post='1013132' date='Jun 27 2006, 11:14 AM']
Here's another:

"Be not afraid to tell Jesus that you love Him; even though it be without feeling, this is the way to oblige Him to help you, and carry you like a little child too feeble to walk."
~St. Therese of Lisieux
[/quote]


That's beautiful..

[franciscanheart]

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
-- Augustine of Hippo

[Thy Geekdom Come]

"You, what have you done by taking Christ out of the schools? You have produced enemies of social order, subversives. On the contrary, what have we gained by putting Christ into the schools of the children of criminals? We have transformed these misfortunate ones into honest and virtuous young people that you wanted to abandon to their sad fate or toss into insane asylums!" -Blessed Bartholomew Longo

"It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope." -Blessed John XXIII

"You see, my dear, Eve only realized she was naked after she ate the apple." -Blessed John XXIII, handing an apple to a scantily-clad woman at a conference

"No one in the world can change Truth." -St. Maximilian Kolbe

"Get out of my sight! Away! We grant a blessing to no one who provokes the world to war!" -St. Pius X to Emperor Franz Josef

"Let the whole of mankind tremble, the whole world shake and the heavens exult, when Christ, the Son of the living God, is present on the altar in the hands of a priest. O admirable heights and sublime lowliness! O sublime humility! O humble sublimity! That the Lord of the universe, God and the Son of God, so humbles Himself that for our salvation He hides Himself under the little form of bread! Look, brothers, at the humility of God and pour out your hearts before Him! Humble yourselves, as well, that you may be exalted by Him. Therefore, hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He Who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally." -St. Francis of Assisi

"We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable." -St. Bernard of Clairvaux

"Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians." -St. Francis Xavier

"Why should you worry whether God wants you to reach the Heavenly home by way of the desert or by the fields, when by the one as well as by the another one arrives all the same at a Blessed Eternity?" -St. Padre Pio

"Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven." -St. Pius X

"He who prays is saved; and he who does not pray is damned." -St. Alphonsus de Liguori

"Do not be afraid to throw open the doors wide to Christ!" -Pope John Paul the Great

[MissScripture]

Juvenile delinquency will be blotted out and it will be blotted out in the home when the parents learn that God is not a cuss word. ~Archbishop Fulton Sheen

The young will love a command if they love the one that give it. If they do no love the one who gives it, if htey have no respect for him then they will not obey. ~Archbishop Fulton Sheen

[ThyWillBeDone]

"One kneels in the consciousness of one's nothingness and rises a priest forever"
- St. Jean Marie Vianney

I just love that quote, but part of it might be that I hope ,God willing, to someday kneel in the consciousness of my nothingness and rise a priest forever.

God Bless

[blovedwolfofgod]

i still call your first confession when you rise to be the priest forever!

Have only a few private devotions, but be constant in them.
---St. Josemaria Escriva

...but previously stated in "True Devotion to Mary" by St. Louis DeMontfort... in fact, there is a whole section on it, i just couldnt find it to post.

[Fulton Sheen Warrior]

+JMJ+


Nuns left a book with emty pages on the steps of the monastary where St. Thomas Aquinas lived. On the book was a note asking St. Thomas Aquinas to explain how one was to become a saint. They left expecting this task to take years.

The Mother Superior, an elderly woman, told the the sisters that this book was to be passed down to all sisters of their convent after she passed.

To their surprise their was a knock on the convents doors. They looked down to see the beutiful book they had made for Aquinas. To their surprise the majority of the book was left empty. Only the first page had writing in it.

HOW TO BECOME A SAINT

1.) Will it.


[quote]...but previously stated in "True Devotion to Mary" by St. Louis DeMontfort... in fact, there is a whole section on it, i just couldnt find it to post.[/quote]

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[Guest JeffCR07]

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true
enemies; succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone may destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is all between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

- Blessed Mother Theresa of Calcutta