Book Review: The Story of a Soul by St. Thérèse of Lisieux
“He does not call those who are worthy, but those He chooses to call.”
– St. Thérèse
“He does not call those who are worthy, but those He chooses to call.”
– St. Thérèse
“If my requests are granted, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will scatter her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and the persecution of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be destroyed…But in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph, the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, Russia will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world.” – Our Lady of Fatima
“There is no disorder that ETERNAL LOVE does not turn against the principle of evil.” – Joseph de Maistre
“I say to you, that if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.”
– Luke 19:40
“Look not upon a woman that hath a mind for many: lest thou fall into her snares.”
– Ecclesiasticus 9:3
“He often makes choice of those who seem to themselves the most unfit for the greatest achievements and chooses such as the world despises to confound the pride of the world.” – Bishop Richard Challoner
“In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence.” – Job 12:12
“Whom when Jesus saw, he was much displeased, and saith to them: Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.”
– Mark 10:14
“Look at those other impious men who work with all their strength to destroy our holy religion by their writings, a Voltaire, a Jean Jacques Rousseau, a Diderot, an Ingersoll, a Darwin, and so many others, who only lived to disseminate by their writings what the devil had instilled in them. Alas! They have worked a great deal of misery, they have ruined countless souls and cast them into hell; but they could not destroy religion, as they believed—they were dashed to pieces on that rock.”
– St. Jean Marie Vianney, Sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent
“But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you.” – 1 Peter 3:15