Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons) " When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society – that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome."  Saint Teresa of Calcutta

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder which you do not require is needed by others. St. Augustine  

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons )  …it is essential to despise all earthly things, looking upon them as refuse, and holding only what is strictly required by one’s needs.   Even these should be curtailed a little so as to endure some inconvenience out of love for poverty…Unfortunately, many desire poverty in name only and provided that they want for nothing.   They profess to be friends of poverty, but are very careful to avoid, as much as possible, hunger, thirst, abjection and contempt, those inseparable companions of poverty.   St. Vincent Ferrer, O.P.