ARIDITY, SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY---------ANGER ARIDITY, SPIRITUAL One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion. -St.  Francis de Sales AUTHORITY It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated. -St. Basil the Great Men desire authority for its own sake that they may bear a rule, command and control other men, and live uncommanded and uncontrolled themselves. -St. Thomas More ANGER The most evident mark of God's anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clergy who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than charity and affection of devoted shepherds ... When God permits such things, it is a very positive proof that He is thoroughly angry with His people, and is visiting His most dreadful anger upon them. That is why He cries unceasingly to Christians, "Return O ye revolting children ... and I will give you pastors according to My own heart". (Jer. 3:14,15) Thus, irregularities in the lives of priests constitute a scourge upon the people in consequence of sin. -St. John Eudes There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience. -St. Catherine of Siena You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity. -St. Angela Merici This deadly cancer of anger from which so much harm grows: It makes us unlike ourselves, makes us like timber wolves or furies from Hell, drives us forth headlong upon the points of swords, makes us blindly run forth after other men's destruction as we hasten toward our own ruin. -St. Thomas More From what does such contrariness arise in habitually angry people, but from a secret cause of too high an opinion of themselves so that it pierces their heart when they see any man esteem them less than they esteem themselves? . . . An inflated estimation of ourselves is more than half the weight of our wrath. -St. Thomas More If we should see two men fighting together over serious matters, we would still think them both crazy if they did not leave off fighting when they saw a ferocious lion coming toward them, ready to devour them both. Now considering that we surely see that death is coming on us all, and will undoubtedly within a short time devour us all-----how soon, we don't know-----isn't it worse than insanity to be angry and bear malice to one another, more often than not over trivial matters, in the same way children fight over cherry stones? -St. Thomas More There is a holy anger, excited by zeal, that moves us to reprove with warmth those whom our mildness failed to correct. -St. John Baptiste de la Salle E-MAIL HOME----------SAINTS-----------QUOTE OF THE WEEK----------MEMORABLE QUOTES www.catholictradition.org/Saint/saintly-quotes3.htm