Daily Virtue Quote – Thomas a’ Kempis
"He who does not overcome small faults, shall fall little by little into greater ones." Source: Thomas a’ Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Dover Thrift Editions, 1940.
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Peter Julian Eymard
"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: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Francis de Sales
"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.
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. John Vianney
"Before giving His adorable Body and precious Blood Jesus washed the feet of the Apostles to show us that we must be free from sin, even the slightest, and that we should have no affection for them. The purity of Jesus is so great that the least fault prevents us from being united to Him [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Thomas a’ Kempis
"It is better to atone for sin now and to cut away vices than to keep them for purgation in the hereafter. In truth, we deceive ourselves by our ill-advised love of the flesh. What will that fire feed upon but our sins?" Source: Thomas a’ Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Dover Thrift Editions, [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – Saint Josemaria Escriva
"How that saintly young priest, who was found worthy of martyrdom, wept a the foot of the altar as he thought of a soul who had come to receive Christ in the state of mortal sin! Is that how you offer Him reparation?" Source: St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way: The Essential Classic of Opus [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Francis de Sales
"The first purification to be made is from sin; the means whereby to make it, the Sacrament of Penance. Seek the best Confessor within your reach, use one of the many little books written in order to help the examination of conscience." Source: St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Random House, [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Peter Julian Eymard
"If what you have commenced well by grace you finish by self-love, it becomes worthless as far as recompense is concerned. So, venial sin renders good things bad. It looks out for them in order eventually to destroy them. We are then, like the laborer who sees the hail destroying in the twinkling of an [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Peter Julian Eymard
"It is very certain that the love of God supplies for everything, suffices for everything. But when it does not purify from sin, it is not true, or not yet very strong. The first effect of love is to purify. For this reason, we must go on examining sin, its fatal consequences, to awaken horror [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"The relationship between the Eucharist and the sacrament of Reconciliation reminds us that sin is never a purely individual affair; it always damages the ecclesial communion that we have entered through Baptism." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007