Never read books you aren't sure about . . . even supposing that these bad books are very well written from a literary point of view. Let me ask you this: Would you drink something you knew was poisoned just because it was offered to you in a golden cup? - St. John Bosco

 

“The most important thing a father can do for his children, is to love their mother.”- Fr. Theodore Hesburgh

 

* Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent. -- ST. AUGUSTINE

 

 

*May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges. ---St. Gregory of Nyssa

 

 

"The person who shouts has no strength."---Fr. Amphilochios Makris

 

 

*"The purity of your thoughts and the purity of your heart will inevitably affect the purity of your deeds."---Fr. Zlatko Sudac

 

"The greatest sin of our generation is that it has lost all sense of sin." --- (Pope Pius XII )

 

 

 "The Eucharist is necessary to preserve the soul in the spiritual life of grace; for the soul, like the body, becomes gradually exhausted, if care is not taken to repair its strength." St. John Baptist de la Salle

 

 

*"The purity of your thoughts and the purity of your heart will inevitably affect the purity of your deeds."---Fr. Zlatko Sudac

 

 

*To mortify one passion, no matter how small, is a greater help in the spiritual life than many abstinences, fasts, and disciplines. ---St. Philip Neri

 

*"When the flame of love exists, it consumes whatever evil approaches."---Fr. Amphilochios Makris

 

 

*There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside."---St. Basil

 

 

 "Keep close to the Catholic Church at all times, for the Church alone can give you true peace, since she alone possesses Jesus, the true Prince of Peace, in the Blessed Sacrament."---St. Padre Pio

 

 

*"Meditate frequently on the sorrows of the Mother of God—sorrows inseparable from those of her beloved Son. If you go to the crucifix, you will there find the Mother, and, on the other hand, wherever the Mother is, there, also, is the Son."--St. Paul of the Cross

 

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded." - Pope John Paul II