Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"The weakening of the inner spiritual life the basic cause of the disharmony and discord which prevail throughout the world." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
Daily Virtue Quote – Thomas a’ Kempis
"Arm yourself like a man against the devil’s assaults. Curb your appetite and you will more easily curb every inclination of the flesh. Never be completely unoccupied, but read or write or pray or meditate or so something for the common good." Source: Thomas a’ Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Dover Thrift Editions, 1940. [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Louis de Montfort
"True devotion to our Lady is holy, that is, it leads us to avoid sin and to imitate the virtues of Mary. Her ten principal virtues are: deep humility, lively faith, blind obedience, unceasing prayer, constant self-denial, surpassing purity, ardent love, heroic patience, angelic kindness, and heavenly wisdom." Source: St. Louis de Montfort, True [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"Modern man has become passive in the face of evil. He has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in a practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it." [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Hildegard of Bingen
"For people have within themselves struggles of confession and of denial… And in this struggle the question is: Is there a God or not? And the answer comes from the Holy Spirit Who dwells in the person: God is, and created you, and also redeemed you. But as long as this question and answer are [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Faustina
"God does not give Himself to a chattering soul which, like a drone in a beehive, buzzes around but gathers no honey. A talkative soul is empty inside. It lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"The life of a man is vagrant, changeful, desultory, like that of children chasing butterflies, until he has discovered for himself why he is here and where he is going." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
Daily Virtue Quote – Thomas a’ Kempis
"The life of a good religious ought to abound in every virtue so that he is interiorly what to others he appears to be. With good reason there ought to be much more within than appears on the outside, for He who sees within is God. Whom we ought to reverence most highly wherever we [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"Perfection is being, not doing; it is not to affect an act but to achieve a character. There is nothing that makes life unhappier than its meaninglessness, and life is devoid of meaning only when it is without purpose. There are tens of thousands of minor purposes, but the one great purpose is the perfection [...]
Daily Virtue Post – St. Peter Julian Eymard
"Give all you have acquired of merits and virtue; give all you will acquire in the future by your actions, your labors, the sufferings of your whole life. If you have nothing, borrow the virtues and merits of Our Lord and of the Blessed Virgin. Beg that good Rebecca to clothe you with the garment [...]