Sin

Who can detect heedless failings?
Cleanse me from my unknown fault.

But from willful sins keep your servant;
let them never control me.

Then shall I be blameless,
innocent of grave sin.

Psalm 19: 13-14

Hope

"Hope is the virtue that keeps us going when we are tempted to think that Jesus is asleep....."

Quote from unnamed person in "Called to be Holy" by Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan

Godly Versus Ungodly

All human beings may be divided into two moral categories only, the godly and the ungodly.

St Maximos the Confessor

Prayer of the Great and Divine Arsenios

"My God, do not abandon me. I have done nothing good before Thee, but grant me, in Thy compassion, the power to make a start."

Angelic Life on Earth

He who loves God lives the angelic life on earth, fasting and keeping vigils, praying and singing psalms and always thinking good of every man.

Stillness

He who is not attracted to worldly things cherishes stillness.

A Prayer Against Evil Thoughts

My Lord Jesus, I beseech You not to go far from me, but come quickly and help me, my God; for evil thoughts and worldly fears have risen up against me to harass my soul. How shall I break them down? How shall I pass through them unarmed?

Man's Value

No man is worthless to God. All of us are called to share in the kingdom of heaven--each with his own vocation: in his home, his work, his civic duties and the exercise of his rights.

Mgr Escriva'

Effort Versus Effect

When an idea imposes itself on the mind...all conscious efforts the subject makes in order to counteract it are not merely without the desired effect, but will actually go in the opposite direction and intensify it...with the result that the dominate idea is reinforced. Charles Baudouin

St. Paul writes knowingly of the problem: "I do not understand what I do. For what I do I do not want to do, but what I hate to do...I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. Rom. 7:15-17

J. Heinrich Arnold