http://www.all.org/rss_ewords.php Encouraging Words, American Life League RSS Feed en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:52:31 EST Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:52:31 EST http://www.all.org webmaster@all.org webmaster@all.org http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12360 2009-11-20 10:35:00 Lord, I am still much in need of greater grace, if I am to reach that state where no one and nothing in all creation can bar my advance.
(Thomas aKempis, Imitation of Christ: III:31:1) http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12357 2009-11-19 12:27:00 “Happy the man who meditates on wisdom, and reasons with good sense. … [Wisdom]She will give him the bread of understanding to eat, and the water of wisdom to drink.  He will lean on her and will not fall, he will rely on her and not be put to shame.” 
(Ecclesiasticus/Sirach 14:20; 15:3-6) http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12350 2009-11-17 10:36:00 “Remember that your soul is a temple of the living God. The kingdom of God is within you. Night and day let your aim be to remain in simplicity and gentleness, calmness and serenity, and in freedom from created things, so that you will find your joy in the Lord Jesus.”  
(St. Paul of the Cross II, quoted in Magnificat, 20/20/09 pg. 289) http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12328 2009-11-09 08:51:00 We should have no other object but God in our actions and seek to please him alone in all things.
(St. Vincent DePaul, October Magnificat, p. 282) http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12322 2009-11-06 07:39:00 One of the chief purposes of suffering, intended by our Lord who sends it, is to purify the soul so that, detached from earthly good and joys, it may give itself entirely to divine love.  Suffering therefore brings on the blossoming of holiness.
(St. Peter Julian Eymard, Apostle of the Eucharist, http://www.sjbrcc.net/pj) http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12309 2009-11-02 12:11:00 “The cross of Jesus is your lot; his love is your strength.”
(St. Peter Julian Eymard (1811-1868) (Magnificat, September 25, p. 350)) http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12293 2009-10-27 10:23:00 “The face of the soul gleams with splendor and light if you talk often with the Lord.”  
(St. Thomas of Villanova, quoted in September ‘09 Magnificat, page 317) http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12285 2009-10-26 08:26:00 Conquering the tongue is better than fasting on bread and water!!
(St. John of the Cross, http://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/inspiration.htm#21) http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12280 2009-10-22 09:22:00 "If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross every day and follow me.  For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, that man will save it.  What gain is it for a man to have won the whole world and to have lost or ruined his very self?  For if anyone is ashamed of me and of my words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when he comes in his own glory and in the glory of the Father and the holy angels.”  
(Luke 9:23-26) http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12276 2009-10-21 11:38:00 “Let this show whether you are a strong man: conquer the impulses which make you love the world; do penance for your past misdeeds, when you were overcome by your impulses and taken captive by vain passions.”  
(St. Augustine, http://www.kofc9127.org/index.html) http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12270 2009-10-20 09:46:00 “Yahweh, how great your goodness reserved for those who fear you! Bestowed on those who take shelter in you, for all the world to see.”    
(Psalm 31:19) http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12260 2009-10-15 09:25:00 “Lord, give me patience in tribulation, and grace in everything to conform my will to yours, that I may truly say, ‘Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
(St. Thomas More, http://www.diometuchen.org/deptsministries/chancellor-1/st) http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12254 2009-10-13 09:36:00 Free your minds, then, of encumbrances; control them, and put your trust in nothing but the grace that will be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.  Do not behave in the way that you liked to before you learnt the truth; make a habit of obedience: be holy in all you do, since it is the Holy One who has called you and scripture says: Be holy, for I am holy.
(1 Peter 13-16) http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12243 2009-10-08 11:53:00 Every day we should voluntarily make sacrifices in order to please Our Lord, to make ourselves better souls of prayer, in order to overcome temptation and in order to help our friends come closer to God.
(In Conversation with God, 5:151) http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12234 2009-10-06 10:00:00 "O how happy and blessed are those who love the Lord and do as the Lord himself said in the gospel: You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart and your whole soul, and your neighbor as yourself. Therefore let us love God and adore him with pure heart and mind. This is his particular desire when he says: True worshipers adore the Father in spirit and truth. For all who adore him must do so in the spirit of truth. Let us direct to him our praises and prayers, saying: Our Father, who art in heaven, since we must always pray and never grow slack.”  
(St. Francis of Assisi, from a letter to the faithful, Liturgy of the Hours,)