Showing posts with label self control. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self control. Show all posts
Saturday, November 19, 2011
There Is Nothing More Nauseating Than A Fickle, Frivolous, Haughty Woman
There is nothing more nauseating than a woman, especially if she is married, who is fickle, frivolous and haughty. The Christian wife must be woman of sound piety towards God, an angel of peace in the family, dignified and pleasant towards others. - Saint Padre Pio
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
You're Bored? That's Because You Keep Your Senses Awake And Your Soul Asleep
You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep. ― Saint JosemarĂa Escrivá
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
God, Grant Me The Serenity
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Be Quick To Listen But Slow To Speak
Be quick to listen but slow to speak and slow to rouse your temper; God’s righteousness is never served by man’s anger. Nobody must imagine that he is religious while he still goes on deceiving himself and not keeping control over his tongue; anyone who does this has the wrong idea of religion. - James 1:19-20,26
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Evil People In Power See The Normalizing Of Homosexuality, Contraceptives, Sterilization, Pornography, And Abortion As Useful Policies To Reduce World Population Growth
Because evil people in power see the normalizing of homosexuality, contraceptives, sterilization, pornography and abortion as useful policies to reduce world population growth. They don't believe people can control themselves sexually so they encourage sexual activity in forms that don't give birth to children. They believe that there's only so much wealth/resources to go around that only a few are entitled to, thus more people must die and the rest become controllable slaves. - K. Mitchell
Thursday, May 19, 2011
We As A Culture Have Unburdened Ourselves Of All Standards Of Sexual Morality
Sex before marriage is not new to our time, but what is new is that in the last fifty years or so, beginning with the sexual revolution of the 1960s, we as a culture have slowly unburdened ourselves of a high standard, or really any standard, when it comes to sexual morality. In 1955, a young woman having sex with her boyfriend, though not unheard of, was considered far from ideal. Today, there is no ideal, and the fact that teenagers will have sex with each other is par for the course – as are teen pregnancy, abortion, single motherhood, the welfare state, and juvenile delinquency. Coincidence? No.
Planned Parenthood delights in the death of sexual standards…. Why? Because a young woman who says ‘yes’ to sex before she’s ready could one day be a young woman who says ‘yes’ to an abortion, allowing PP to continue their intended mission: ridding the world of ‘human weeds.’
And my, how the money rolls in. - Kristen Walker, author of Eve’s Ransom blog
Planned Parenthood delights in the death of sexual standards…. Why? Because a young woman who says ‘yes’ to sex before she’s ready could one day be a young woman who says ‘yes’ to an abortion, allowing PP to continue their intended mission: ridding the world of ‘human weeds.’
And my, how the money rolls in. - Kristen Walker, author of Eve’s Ransom blog
Sunday, April 17, 2011
How Many There Are Who Shrink From Whatever Requires Manhood
How many there are, who love to live delicately and shrink from whatever requires manhood. - Pope Leo XIII
Monday, March 7, 2011
God Wills The Lofty Mountains of Our Lives be Made Low
God wills the lofty mountains of our lives be made low. These mountains take the forms of pride, fear, resentment, and anxiety. They prevent us from seeing the light of Christ inviting us to taste of His goodness. Christ wants to level our mountains, and fill our empty valleys with His river of Love. We should simply stop paying attention to our failings and problems and look at Christ as our solution - Brother Cassian Sama, O.P.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Virtues Are Formed by Prayer
Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven. - Saint Ephraem of Syria
Friday, March 4, 2011
They That Follow Their Sensuality Defile Their Conscience
Study, therefore, to withdraw thy heart from the love of visible things, and to turn thyself to things invisible. For they that follow their sensuality defile their conscience and lose the grace of God. - Thomas a Kempis
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Abuses Are Done Away With by Teaching Rather Than Commanding
Be assured that abuses are done away with by teaching rather than by commanding. If we make threats, let it be done sorrowfuly, in the words of Scripture, and in terms of the world to come. In this way it is not we who are feared because of our power, but God because of our words. - Saint Augustine
Friday, January 14, 2011
Fighting For Him Against Riches, Against The World, Hell, And Himself
What, then does God look upon with pleasure and delight? What is He asking the Angels about, and even the devils? It is about the man who is fighting for Him against riches, against the world, hell, and himself, the man who is cheerfully carrying his cross. - Saint Louis-Marie De Montfort
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Temptation is a Sure Sign The Soul is Very Pleasing to The Lord
Temptation is a sure sign the soul is very pleasing to the Lord. - Saint Padre Pio
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The Mercy of God is Infinitely Greater Than Your Malice
The mercy of God, my son, is infinitely greater than your malice. - Saint Padre Pio
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Lust Would Like us to Believe That it Can Make us Happy
Sexual activity is fuelled by an unfulfilled desire for true love. In the words of Josh Harris, “Lust would like us to believe that it can make us happy. If we just give it what it wants, it will stop pestering us and be satisfied. Lust is never satisfied, you can’t bargain with it and come out a winner. Lust hijacks sex. It wants to train your desires to delight in the thrill of the forbidden so that you lose your Godly appetite for what is good.” Close physical involvement is not equivalent to true affection. - Love Undefiled
Friday, December 24, 2010
Patience Obtains All
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. - Saint Theresa of Avila (PoesĂas 30)
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Look Upon Every Temptation as an Invitation to Grow
Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to be tempted by the opposite vice. Therefore, look upon every temptation as an invitation to grow in a particular virtue and a promise by God that you will be successful, if only you stand fast. - Saint Philip Neri
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Don't Have Anything to do With Foolish and Stupid Arguments
Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. - 2 Timothy 2:23
Do Not Grumble
Do not grumble as some of them did, and suffered death by the destroyer...God is faithful and will not let you be tried beyond your strength; but with the trial he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to bear it. - 1 Corinthians 10:10, 13
Saturday, November 20, 2010
No Foul Language
No foul language should come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for needed edification, that it may impart grace to those who hear. - Eph 4:29
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