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DO you know why Our Lord persists in remaining day and night
in our churches? . . . He stays there so that every time we want to
go and see Him, we may be able to find HIm.
- Style of the Cure d'Ars (P.)
YOU wonder why God, who is goodness Itself, allows us to suffer . . . .
But, what would you think of a doctor who lost his patient because he
was afraid to give him the necessary but unpleasant treatment?
- Sermon Afflictions.
TO be loved by God, to be united to God, to live in the Presence of God,
to live for God! Oh! how wonderful like is -- and death!
- Words with which the Cure d'Ars often ended his addresses (D.)
WITH God's help we shall always have power over our emotions.
- Of Salvation (Sp.)
WHEN his mother recognized St. Alexis in the lifeless body of the
beggar who had lived for thirty years under her palace stairway,
she cried: "Oh! that I should have known you so late!" . . . The
soul after this life will see at last Him whom she has possessed
in the Eucharist . . . .
-Eucharist Mediation I.
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WE should be able to suffer for Him who
vouchsafed to suffer for us.
- Catechism on Suffering (M.)
ONE must do all one can for everybody,
expecting no return save from God only.
- Catechism on Charity (D.)
NOTHING is more unworthy of a Christian, whose
life should be an imitation of a God who is the soul
of Honor and Truth itself, than to think one thing
and say another.
- Sermon on Lying.
IF God took the name of Father, it was to inspire
us with a greater confidence in Him.
- Sermon on Hope.
GOD makes greater speed to pardon a penitent sinner
than a mother to snatch her child out of the fire.
- Catechetical Illustration from Nature (M.)
HE to whom all power has been given has not yet lost it.
- Signs of the Saint's Mission (J.V.)
AN undertaking to be pleasing to God must have three
conditions: It must be sincere, selfless and persevering.
- Sermon on False and True Goodness.
THE martyrs would not have been martyrs if they had not
refused to disobey the commandments of God.
- Sermon on the First Commandment.