In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.


Saint John of the Cross

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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierar...
SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themse...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal rewa...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but doe...
SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running w...
SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. ...
SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the me...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander...
SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of...
SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May y...
SAINT TERESE OF LISEAUX
We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the...
SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
Teach us to give and not to count the cost
SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.
SAINT PETER OF ALCANTARA
Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not en...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to cha...
HUGH OF SAINT-VICTOR
It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for ser...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
Pain is never permanent.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
Slander is worse than cannibalism
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expans...
SAINT-JOHN PERSE
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inheren...
SAINT-JOHN PERSE
In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the wor...
SAINT-JOHN PERSE
Hell is paved with priests' skulls
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maket...
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for other...
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest d...
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
A comprehended god is no god
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
The way to final freedom is within thy self.
THE BOOK OF THE GOLDEN PRECEPTS
Roses are red, Violettes are bllue,
Valentines day is consumerous crap,now don't you have ironi...
MOCK OF THE WEEK THE SHOW
Nature is under control but not disturbed.
BEATRIX OF THE NETHERLANDS
I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task...
BEATRIX OF THE NETHERLANDS
FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping wi...
THE DICTIONARY OF DATING
Eye Contact: A method utilized by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in ...
THE DICTIONARY OF DATING
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
THE LAWS OF MANU
I'm sorry I brought this upon you, my boy. I'm sorry you must carry this burden. I'm sorry for every...
LORD OF THE RINGS
I'm on my third Mrs. Potts' costume,'' Treglown said.
THE WIZARD OF OZ
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
THE WIZARD OF OZ
Peace is the biggest struggle.
JULIANA OF THE NETHERLANDS
I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.
JULIANA OF THE NETHERLANDS
All that is gold does not glitter Not all those who wander are lost The old who are strong do not wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS
I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as y...
LORD OF THE RINGS
Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!
LORD OF THE RINGS
PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death i...
LORD OF THE RINGS
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to und...
LORD OF THE RINGS