Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.


Saint Ignatius of Loyola

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SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossibl...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great gr...
RICHARD OF SAINT VICTOR
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of se...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisibl...
RICHARD OF SAINT-VICTOR
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For wher...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Preach the gospel everywhere you go, and, if necessary, use words.
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long cours...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first o...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Hail, O bleeding Head and wounded, With a crown of thorns surrounded, Buffeted, and bruised an...
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by other...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Who loves me will love my dog also. [Fr., Que me amat, amet et canem meum.]
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. [Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat...
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of h...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Hell is full of good wishes or desires. [Fr., L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontes ou desirs.]
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
SAINT THERESA OF JESUS
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my deli...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means takin...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph;...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that i...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Chur...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so gr...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces a...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of cleare...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA