Rexi's Random Quote Thread

[Resurrexi]

"Always be the best, my boy, the bravest,
and hold you head up high above the others."
(Iliad, Book 6, lines 247-248)

[Veridicus]

[quote name='Resurrexi' date='02 January 2010 - 11:10 AM' timestamp='1262452214' post='2028597']
Dante was just quoting David (Psalm 32:1) via St. Jerome.
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Show off.











Seriously tho, you are some sort of savant. Can you not tie your shoes? Make phone calls? Use the Dewey Decimal System? There must be something...

Edited January 4, 2010 by Veridicus

[Tridenteen]

JMJ
"When I lived most happily without thinking of affection, You wanted me to love you; and I loved You with a Passion. And I will continue to love You even after death. I will love You with all of my soul, and whereas the heart stops beating the soul never dies."
-Montserrat Grases+

Tridenteen

[Tridenteen]

JMJ

"Lord Jesus Christ Son of God, have mercy on me a poor sinner."
-Jesus Prayer AKA "Prayer of the Heart"

tridenteen

[Tridenteen]

JMJ
And she answered: "All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your place is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear pain nor death."

"What do you fear, lady?" he asked.

"A cage," she said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire."

Tridenteen

[laetitia crucis]

All from ([i]Padre Pio: The True Story[/i] by Bernard C. Ruffin)

I know the book sounds lame or sketchy, but I found it quite good. I read this in the convent and only copied the quotes into my "nun book" (mini pocket notebook) while on the 30 Day Ignatian Exercises. Didn't take down the page numbers. However, most I assume are from the letters he wrote to his spiritual fathers and daughters.

“The continual fear of losing God; that holy circumspection that makes you watch where you step so as not to stumble; that courage with which you confront the battles of the enemy; that resignation of all the troubles of this life to the divine Will; that ardent desire to see the Kingdom of God established in you and in the others are the most clear proofs of the love of your souls toward the Supreme Good.”

"Your tears were collected by the Angels and were placed in a golden chalie, and you will find them when you present yourself before God."

"...to be on the Cross with Jesus is infinitely more perfect than merely contemplating [Him] on the Cross."

"...rejoice at all times, for the Lord's yoke is an agreeable one. You are glorifying the Lord by your life and He is pleased with you. Never leave any room for sadness in your heart, for this would be in conflict with the Holy Spirit poured out into your soul."

"No pilgrim soul can worthily love His God, but when his soul does everything possible on his part and trusts in divine mercy, why would Jesus reject this spirit? Has He not commanded us to love God according to our strength? If you have given and consecrate everything to God, why fear?

"Do everything for the love of God and His glory without looking at the outcome of the undertaking; work is judged not by its result, but by its intention. The result of each action must be left to us."

"Without love for the Cross we cannot make much profit in the Christian life."

"Our sweet Lord is deprived of giving us many graces, solely because the door to our heart is not open to Him in holy confidence."

"Don't judge by appearances. A certain inconsistency between acts and words does not always indicate duplicity, but merely human fragility."

Edited January 18, 2010 by laetitia crucis

[laetitia crucis]

"There are very few people who realise what God would make of them if they abandoned themselves into his hands, and let themselves be formed by his grace." -- St. Ignatius of Loyola

I found that quote on the back of a holy card when I was in the novitiate. Hope it counts!


And this one from [i]First Jesuit: Ignatius Loyola, 1491-1555[/i] by Mary Purcell:

My only wish and desire, the one thing I humbly crave to have is the grace to love God, to love Hi alone. Beyond that, I ask for nothing more. -- St. Ignatius of Loyola

Loved that book.

[laetitia crucis]

From Mother Teresa's letters in [i]Come, Be My Light[/i]:

Love demands sacrifice. But if we love until it hurts, God will give us His peace and Joy... suffering in itself is worth nothing; but suffering shared with Christ's Passion is a wonderful gift.

Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.

[laetitia crucis]

"Most people live dejectedly in worldly sorrow and joy; they are the ones who sit along the wall and do not join in the dance. The knights of infinity are dancers and possess elevation. They make the movements upward, and fall down again; and this too is no mean pastime, nor ungraceful to behold. But whenever they fall down they are not able at once to assume the posture, they vacillate an instant, and this vacillation shows that after all they are strangers in the world. This is more or less strikingly evident in proportion to the art they possess, but even the most artistic knights cannot altogether conceal this vacillation. One need not look at them when they are up in the air, but only the instant they touch or have touched the ground–then one recognizes them. But to be able to fall down in such a way that the same second it looks as if one were standing and walking, to transform the leap of life into a walk, absolutely to express the sublime in the pedestrian–that only the knight of faith can do–and this is the one and only prodigy." -- Soren Kierkegaard ([url="http://www.amazon.com/Fear-Trembling-Repetition-Kierkegaards-Writings/dp/0691020264/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263827776&sr=1-3"]Fear and Trembling[/url])

Another one where I didn't write down the page number.

"But anyone who loves God needs no tears, no admiration; he forgets the suffering in the love. Indeed, so completely has he forgotten it that there would not be the slightest trace of his suffering left if God Himself did not remember it, for He sees it in secret and recognizes distress and counts the tears and forgets nothing." -- last page of [url="http://www.amazon.com/Fear-Trembling-Repetition-Kierkegaards-Writings/dp/0691020264/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263827776&sr=1-3"]Fear and Trembling[/url] (maybe page 118?)

*Edited to add second quote.

Edited January 18, 2010 by laetitia crucis

[Saint Therese]

[b]Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own[/b].-[i]Bl. Angela of Foligno

Give whatever he takes and take whatever He gives with a big smile.- [/i][b]Mother Teresa[/b][i]
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Edited January 18, 2010 by Saint Therese

[Veridicus]

Kinda long...a poem I had to read for a Lit class in undergrad. I really liked it.



[b][u]Who the Meek Are Not[/u][/b]
Not the bristle-bearded Igors bent
under burlap sacks, not peasants knee-deep
in the rice paddy muck,
nor the serfs whose quarter-moon sickles
make the wheat fall in waves
they don't get to eat. My friend the Franciscan
nun says we misread
that word meek in the Bible verse that blesses them.
To understand the meek
(she says) picture a great stallion at full gallop
in a meadow, who —
at his master's voice — seizes up to a stunned
but instant halt.
So with the strain of holding that great power
in check, the muscles
along the arched neck keep eddying,
and only the velvet ears
prick forward, awaiting the next order.


by Mary Karr

[laetitia crucis]

"By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we have nailed Him there and crucified Him; but the Love in His eternal heart could not be extinguished. He willed to give us the very life we slew; to give us the very Food we destroyed; to nourish us with the very Bread we buried, and the very Blood we poured forth. He made our very crime into a happy fault; He turned a Crucifixion into a Redemption; a Consecration into a Communion; a death into Life Everlasting,"

- from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's [i]This is the Mass[/i]

[laetitia crucis]

"Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires,"

-- J.R.R. Tolkien, [i]Letters[/i]