Quote/s of the Day – 14 March 2018 – Wednesday of the 4th Week of Lent
“Speaking of Death & Eternity”
“Christ’s martyrs feared neither death nor pain. He triumphed in them who lived in them; and they, who lived not for themselves but for Him, found in death itself the way to life.”
St Augustine – (354-430) – Father & Doctor of the Church
“The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance in the next; the more sorrow in the present, the greater will be our joy in the future.”
St Isidore of Seville (560-636) – Doctor of the Church
“A man may very well lose his head and yet come to no harm – yea, I say, to unspeakable good and everlasting happiness.”
St Thomas More (1478-1535)
“Let us prepare ourselves for death; we have not a minute to lose: it will come upon us at the moment when we least expect it; it will take us by surprise. Look at the saints, my children, who were pure; they were always trembling, they pined away with fear and we, who so often offend the good God–we have no fears. Life is given us that we may learn to die well and we never think of it. We occupy ourselves with everything else. The idea of it often occurs to us and we always reject it; we put it off to the last moment. O my children! this last moment, how much it is to be feared! Yet the good God does not wish us to despair; He shows us the good thief, touched with repentance, dying near Him on the cross; but he is the only one and then see, he dies near the good God. Can we hope to be near Him at our last moment–we who have been far from Him all our life? What have we done to deserve that favour? A great deal of evil and no good.”
St John Vianney (1786-1859)
(via AnaStpaul – Breathing Catholic)
