In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.
Saint Ignatius
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on... POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a... POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate... POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth... POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro... POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on... POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi... POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d... POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the... POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ... POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e... POPE JOHN PAUL II You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t... POPE JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow. POPE JOHN PAUL II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b... POPE JOHN PAUL II The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re... POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. POPE JOHN PAUL II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther... POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you... POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. POPE JOHN PAUL II Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bib... JUDITH MCNAUGHT The scars of others should teach us caution. ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men. ST. JEROME Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. MOTHER TERESA I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? MOTHER TERESA The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. MOTHER TERESA Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe t... MOTHER TERESA Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money... MOTHER TERESA I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touc... MOTHER TERESA Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. MOTHER TERESA Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. ST. JEROME Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. MOTHER TERESA Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call... MOTHER TERESA True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. ST. JEROME Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in t... ST. JEROME Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. ST. 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JEROME We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwan... MOTHER TERESA The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. MOTHER TERESA Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. MOTHER TERESA Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger,... MOTHER TERESA A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts. ST. JEROME If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. MOTHER TERESA Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. MOTHER TERESA Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. MOTHER TERESA Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. MOTHER TERESA Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. ST. JEROME We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. MOTHER TERESA Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. MOTHER TERESA We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less be... MOTHER TERESA Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. MOTHER TERESA I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me o... ST. JEROME I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet f... ST. JEROME Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have receiv... MOTHER TERESA My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the pr... ST. JEROME There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the ... MOTHER TERESA The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. MOTHER TERESA Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues grat... ST. JEROME Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. ST. JEROME It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good. ST. JEROME The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak. INDONESIA123 There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw... ELISABETH ELLIOT Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not... SAINT AUGUSTINE The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked. SAINT PATRICK I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth... 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SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco... SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o... SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H... SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h... SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ... SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough. SAINT PATRICK Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not. SAINT BERNARD For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ... SAINT BERNARD Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do... SAINT BERNARD Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav... SAINT BERNARD I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C... SAINT BERNARD The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure... SAINT BERNARD A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ... SAINT BERNARD Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in... SAINT BERNARD Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in ... SAINT BERNARD That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness. SAINT BERNARD There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lackin... SAINT BERNARD You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason... SAINT BERNARD I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lor... SAINT BERNARD Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a... SAINT BERNARD Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong... SAINT BERNARD In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?... SAINT BERNARD Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell al... SAINT BERNARD God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig... SAINT BERNARD We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ... SAINT BERNARD I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. SAINT BERNARD Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinar... SAINT BASIL The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enqu... SAINT BASIL There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things. SAINT BASIL We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not s... SAINT BASIL We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individua... SAINT BASIL Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control ov... SAINT BASIL Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a ... SAINT BASIL