Daily quotes on developing virtue from Saints, Popes and others.
"There was at that time a certain nun who managed to irritate me in everything she did. The devil had a part in it, for it was certainly he who made me see all her bad points. Not wishing to give way to natural antipathy, I reminded myself that sentiments of charity were not enough; [...]
"Pride and the seven capital sins, are, above all, spiritual; and if we do not repulse them in our mind, we are lost. It is the mind that directs life, it is the starting-point of our actions. Watch, then, over your thoughts, over your imagination which suggests them." Source: Â St. Peter Julian Eymard, The [...]
"Moreover, this devotion is a practice of great humility, which God loves above all the other virtues. A soul which exalts itself abases God; a soul which abases itself exalts God. God resists the proud, and gives His grace to the humble. If you abase yourself, thinking yourself unworthy to appear before Him and to [...]
"Those who live in obedience when unsupervised gain an eternal reward." Source: St. Hildegard of Bingen, Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias (Classics of Western Spirituality (Paperback)), Paulist Press, 1990.
"Of course, we should love him notwithstanding his faults, but without loving those faults; true friendship implies an interchange of what is good, not what is evil." Source: St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Random House, Inc., 2002.
"The obedient have no desire to obey in their own way, to choose the time and the place; they would rather follow the rule and their superiors." Source: St. Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue, Paulist Press, 1980 The Dialogue was dictated by Catherine over a period of five days. Three scribes worked to keep [...]
"For life is not the same thing as virtue, since not every life, but a wisely regulated life, is virtue; and yet, while there can be life of some kind without virtue, there cannot be virtue without life. This I might apply to memory and reason, and such mental faculties; for these exist prior to [...]
"I should like to ask those who are afraid to pray for trials lest they should at once be given them what the mean when they beg the Lord to fulfill His will in them. Do they say this because everyone else says it and not because they want it to be done?" Source: [...]
"You have chosen the love of Jesus Christ. Well, then, He must be your law, your model, your centre, and your end! To live for Him, you must live of Him and by Him. This demands that we should declare war against the human ego, against self-love; that we must clothe ourselves with the strength [...]
"Mercy is the very foundation of the Church’s life. All of her pastoral activity should be caught up in the tenderness she makes present to believers; nothing in her preaching and in her witness to the world can be lacking in mercy." Source: Pope Francis, Misericordiae Vultus: BULL OF INDICTION OF THE EXTRAORDINARY JUBILEE [...]