It's all the same song
Plato’s Republic: Eight Sirens seated on nested cosmic whorls, each singing a unique tone...together forming the perfect Music of the Spheres.
Tolkien heard the same song ... the Ainur’s Music birthing the world in The Silmarillion.
Joy does not reside in the things about us, but in the very depths of the soul, one can have it in the gloom of a dungeon as well as in the palace of a king.
-St. Thérèse
He who prays with desire sings in his heart even though his tongue be silent, but if he prays without desire, he is dumb before God even though his voice sounds in the ears of men.
-St. Augustine
Ask, seek, knock; you will receive and find, and it will be opened to you. However, do not ask, seek, and knock with your voice alone but with your life as well.
-St. Augustine
If you wish to reach high, then begin at the lowest level. If you are trying to construct some mighty edifice in height, you will begin with the lowest foundation. This is humility.
-St. Augustine
Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it.
-St. Francis De Sales
Christianity has died many times and risen again for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
-G.K Chesterton
It's not the first time the Church has looked defeated, and it won't be the last. But the Rock is firm.
Conservative Catholics only stay Catholic for the “high church” clout and family reasons. The gates of hell will not prevail against the church, but every Pope (vicar of Christ himself btw) in the last 50 years has been a replacement migration libtard?
I can’t believe there’s still no proper pocket-sized Douay-Rheims Bible—something compact and well-bound like the Confraternity of the Precious Blood editions.
Publishers of good will, take note! I’d promote it like crazy.
My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.
Praising, I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies
God desires from us more fidelity to the little things that he places in our power than ardor for great things that do not depend upon us.
-St. Francis de Sales
Gird up thy lions like a man against the assaults of the devil; bridle thine appetite, and thou wilt soon be able to bridle every inclination of the flesh.
-Thomas á Kempis
Let us read the lives of the saints;
let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.
~ St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
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We honor God, we honor his mercy, and his liberality, when, though we see how miserable we are, and how unworthy of any kindness, we yet ask for great graces, trusting in the goodness of God.
-St. Alphonsus