Quotes from the Saints for Lent

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It is good pleasure that we adapt ourselves to people’s moods, to places and to times. ~ St. Vincent de Paul
 
Seek only to please God by faithfully observing His commandments and evangelical counsels… exactly but also cheerfully and diligently. ~ St. Louise Marillac
 
St John Vianny
"When you awake in the night, transport yourself quickly in spirit before the Tabernacle, saying: ‘Behold, my God, I come to adore You, to praise, thank, and love you, and to keep you company with all the Angels,’ "

"I come to tell you that they suffer in Purgatory, that they weep, and that they demand with urgent cries the help of your prayers and your good works. I seem to hear them crying from the depths of those fires which devour them: “Tell our loved ones, tell our children, tell all our relatives how great the evils are which they are making us suffer. We throw ourselves at their feet to implore the help of their prayers. Ah! Tell them that since we have been separated from them, we have been here burning in the flames!”

“What years of Purgatory will there be for those Christians who have no difficulty at all in deferring their prayers to another time on the excuse of having to do some pressing work! If we really desired the happiness of possessing God, we should avoid the little faults as well as the big ones, since separation from God is so frightful a torment to all these poor souls!”
 
“No one heals himself by wounding another.” -St. Ambrose-
 
"I’m not afraid of any disease…- " St. Marianne Cope-
Wish I could say the same and believe it.
 
"I don't have difficulty believing in miracles, since I experienced the miracle of a change in my own heart-only God can do that." -St. Augustine- Maybe this is why I believe in miracles? Or maybe it just seems logical to believe in them?
 
I am now completely convinced that when one does a deed of charity one need not worry about where the money will come from: it will always come. ~ Bl.Frédéric Ozanam
 
“When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.” -St. John Chrysostom-
 
Interior suffering is tough. But if we keep looking at Jesus and keep saying “Jesus I trust in You”, it bears much fruit.
 
I tend to avoid suffering as much as possible. Perhaps this would make a good thread.
 
I am speaking of the sufferings that we cannot avoid such as illness, or when people misunderstand us, and other similar situations.

Yes it would make a good thread!
 
As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communicated by way of teaching if we ourselves are not able to penetrate into the goodness of the Lord by our own experience.
(St. Basil the Great, Conversations on the Psalms, 29)

"trusting God in every circumstance, even in adversity. A prayer of St. Teresa of Jesus wonderfully expresses this trust:
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Let nothing trouble you / Let nothing frighten you
Everything passes / God never changes
Patience / Obtains all
Whoever has God / Wants for nothing
God alone is enough." (CCC 227)
 
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“A brother asked an old man questions about comforts [or pleasures], and the old man said unto him, “Eat grass, wear grass, and sleep on grass, and then thy heart will become like iron.” (The Paradise of the Holy Fathers: Volumes 1 & 2 by Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Aeterna Press: Vol. 2; 1, 2, n. 69)
 
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misstherese said:
Let the mouth fast from disgraceful and abusive words, because, what gain is there when, on the one hand we avoid eating chicken and fish and, on the other, we chew-up and consume our brothers? He who condemns and blasphemes is as if he has eaten brotherly meat, as if he has bitten into the flesh of his fellow man. It is because of this that Paul frightened us, saying: “If you chew up and consume one another be careful that you do not annihilate yourselves.”

-St. John Chrysostom
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This!! This made me feel so much better about not being able to fast. I am trying to fast from complaining this Lent, instead of fasting from food.
 
hymin said:
“Eat grass, wear grass, and sleep on grass, and then thy heart will become like iron.”
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So… eat grains, I guess? As in, instead of meat?

And wear cotton or linen? IE something simple and inexpensive…

And sleep on the grass. That’s the tough one. I would have to move the lawn into my bedroom.
 
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