Our business is to gain heaven; everything else is a sheer waste of time (III:503).
Quote of the Day – July 20
The poor who do not know where to go or what to do, who are suffering already and who increase daily, are my burden and my sorrow (III:492).
Quote of the Day – July 19
Remember that the means for acting in a useful manner in your office are mistrust of self and confidence in the Lord who, if He needed the help of men for the successful outcome of His plans, would have put in your place a Doctor and a saint (III:464).
Quote of the Day – July 18
May God be pleased to give the Company men who are equally zealous in our dear vocation (III:452).
Quote of the Day – July 17
The day will come when the Company will have greater credibility and support, and those who can do good for it will have greater charity for it than they do now (III:448).
Quote of the Day – July 16
Charity converts necessity into virtue by acquiescing to God's good pleasure in all the afflictions we inevitably suffer (III:398).
Quote of the Day – July 15
Let us rely on Our Lord and allow Him to act since it is He who governs and not we (III:385).
Quote of the Day – July 14
Trials from on high are always salutary (III:385).
Quote of the Day – July 13
We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ (III:384).
Quote of the Day – July 12
God raises up and humbles us, consoles and afflicts us, according as he sees us disposed to profit by these states (III:382).