Quotemeal: Sep. 10th, 1954

Friday, September 10, 1954

"I clearly recognize that all good is in God alone, and that in me, without Divine Grace, there is nothing but deficiency... The one sole thing in myself in which I glory, is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory."
— Catherine of Genoa

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"God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"Who but the same God Who stands in the darker, fouler rooms of our hearts and says, 'Yes, let the God of Heaven and Earth be born here — in THIS place.'"
— Leslie Leyland Fields —
"Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently."
— François de Sales —
"I resolve to endeavor to my utmost to act and think as if I had already seen the happiness of heaven and the torments of hell."
— Jonathan Edwards —

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Illustration of Catherine of Genoa — "I clearly recognize that all good is in God alone, and that in me, without Divine Grace, there is nothing but deficiency... The one sole thing in myself in which I glory, is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory."

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