Wisdom of the Saints


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St. Alphonsus:

"Tell me, blasphemer, of what country are you? Allow me to tell you, you belong to hell."


Regarding those who blaspheme, St. John Chrysostom advises: “Strike his mouth, and sanctify thereby thy hand.”


St. Louis, King of France, commanded by edict that every blasphemer should be branded on the mouth with an iron. A certain nobleman having blasphemed, many persons besought the king not to inflict that punishment upon him; but St. Louis insisted upon its infliction in every instance; and some taxing him with excessive cruelty on that account, he replied that he would suffer his own mouth to be burned sooner than allow such an outrage to be put upon God in his kingdom.


Fr. Slater SJ
Moral Theology, 5th Edition, 1934:

“There may easily be a moral obligation to vote at elections in order to prevent the election of one who would do grave public harm if elected, or in order to secure the election of one whose election would be a great public benefit. If the only choice lies between candidates who are equally good or equally bad, there will be no moral obligation to vote.”


“If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.” -St Teresa of Avila


According to St John Climacus:

Friends of God: noetic and incorporeal beings which surround God

True Servants of God: those who tirelessly and unremittingly do and have done His will

Worthless servants: those who think of themselves as having been granted baptism, but have not faithfully kept the vows they made to God

Those estranged from God and alienated from Him: those who are unbelievers or heretics

The enemies of God: those who have not only evaded and rejected the Lord's commandments themselves, but also wage bitter war on those who are fulfilling it


“Spirituality is a science that is lived. It is important therefore to show historically how it has been carried out in practice. This requires the reading of the biographies of the Saints both ancient and modern.” -Tanquerey


Sancta Maria, Mater Crucifixi:
lacrymas impertire nobis crucifixoribus Filii tui,
nunc et in hora mortis nostrae.
Amen.

Holy Mary, Mother of the Crucified,
grant tears to us crucifiers of thy Son,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.


Ave Maria doloribus plena,
Crucifixus tecum:
lacrymabilis te in mulieribus,
et lacrymabilis fructus ventris tui, Jesus.

Hail Mary, full of sorrows,
the Crucified is with thee:
tearful art thou amongst women,
and tearful is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.


St. Albert the Great:

The person who loves God solely because of His goodness and blessedness, and from an earnest desire to participate in the same goodness and blessedness of God, may be said to love God perfectly.


St. Albert the Great:

The sensitive and Holy soul is repelled by the very idea of loving God with any ulterior or mercenary motive, such as gaining some comfort or reward from Him.


St. Albert the Great:

Certain virtues are natural, arising spontaneously from our human nature. Thus humility, kindness, modesty, generosity, mercy, and patience are often born in our hearts without any training or effort. But these virtues which are simply part of the nature of some people, are not sufficient in themselves to merit an eternal reward for the kingdom of god, since they do not take any effort or resolution to acquire. Rather, our virtues must be developed beyond our purely natural characteristics, as a result of effort, intention, Goodwill, and training, in order to possess true merit in the sight of God.


St. Basil the Great:

If, following the precept of the Lord, you are won't to look upon yourself as the least of men, how could you then be made angry by a slight to your dignity?


St. Basil the Great:

You are foolish to be angry with your brother. For how is it not foolish to be angry with another simply because he provokes you: doing what dogs do, who bite the stones when they cannot reach those who throw them. He who is provoked is to be pitied; but he who provokes him becomes hateful.

When this happens, turn your anger against the murderer of man, against the father of lies, the sower of sin; but show sympathy to your brother; because, should he remain in sin, he will be given over with the devil to eternal fire.


St. Basil the Great:

Anger is often the minister of just actions. Again, it was in deliberate and reasonable anger, for the good of Israel, that the burning Elias slew 450 men, priests of confusion, and 400 priests of the groves who ate at Jezebels table.


St. Basil the Great:

Anger, used as it should be, and when it should be, will lend us courage and steadfastness and a firmer purpose; used against right reason, it becomes madness...

Just as the Lord threatens with judgment those who yield rashly to anger, so does he not forbid us to use anger as a help in those things where it is fitting to use it... Anger is to be used as a weapon. Because of this Moses, the gentlest of men, took vengeance on the idolaters and armed the Levites for the slaughter of their brethren.


St. Basil the Great:

He who uses the desiring power of the soul for the pursuit of the pleasures of the flesh and impure gratifications becomes dissolute and repulsive; but he who directs it upwards to the love of God and towards a longing desire for eternal joys becomes happy and blessed.


St. Basil the Great:

If your anger has never been aroused against the evil one, you shall never be able to hate him as he deserves.

For to me it seems as necessary to hate evil as much as we must love Justice; and for this anger is especially useful. As a sheepdog obeys its shepherd, so must feeling be subject to reason: quiet and submissive to its master, and obedient to his voice; fierce to The voice or the face that is strange, at once docile and submissive to the voice of a friend.

This cooperation between the irascible part of the soul and it's understanding part is a perfect and fitting thing. For such a spirit will have no part with treachery, it will not yield to a false friend; it will bark like a dog at false pleasure; attacking it fiercely as though it werea wolf.

This then is the service of anger to those who know how to master it.


In the church there is not able to be a damnable error. But it would be a damnable error if she would venerate a saint who was a sinner, because anyone knowing their sin, might believe the church to be false; and if this were to happen, they might be led into error. Therefore the church is not able to err in such things.

-St. Thomas Aquinas


St. Basil the Great:

Were you struck in the face? So too was the Lord. Were you spat upon? And so is our Lord. Were you falsely accused? So to was your judge. Did they tear your garments? They stretched my Lord and divided his garments among them. You have not yet been condemned to death; nor fastened upon a cross. Many things are wanting before you become like to him.

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