Those who serve the neighbor at the risk of their lives are like unrefined gold, which becomes visible in fire and which would otherwise remain hidden under ordinary actions and sometimes under faults and failings (IV:493).
Quote of the Day – December 7
Let us never do anything that does not give glory to God, to that end, let us trample underfoot human respect and self-interest (IV:480).
Quote of the Day – December 6
Let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable. That is the only way to be highly esteemed (IV:479).
Quote of the Day – December 5
You acquire new merits daily by the unprecedented good you do everywhere and for all sorts of persons (IV:456).
Quote of the Day – December 4
People devoted to the assistance of their neighbor are using all their energy and alms to snatch the poor from the jaws of death and poor girls from occasions of sin (IV:453).
Quote of the Day – December 3
I hope that God in his goodness will draw strength from these weaknesses and His glory from our miseries (IV:439).
Quote of the Day – December 2
God be praised that you are ready to do His Will in all things and everywhere and to go to live and die wherever He chooses to call you (IV:437).
Quote of the Day – December 1
We can say that this war will be the cause of the damnation of many persons but that God will also make use of it for the grace, the justification, and the glory of many persons (IV:415).
Quote of the Day – November 30
Soup is distributed daily to fourteen or fifteen thousand persons who would die of hunger without this assistance (IV:396).
Quote of the Day – November 29
We hope from the goodness of God that peace will come (IV:395-396).