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Friday, April 1, 2016

Quotes from Pope St. Gregory the Great - Gregory I

  • “Have confidence in the compassion of our Creator. Reflect well on what you are now doing, and keep before you the things you have done. Lift up your eyes to the overflowing compassion of heaven, and while He waits for you, draw near in tears to our merciful Judge.”
  • “No one does more harm in the Church than he who has the title or rank of holiness and acts perversely.”
  • "If we knew at what time we were to depart from this world, we would be able to select a season for pleasure and another for repentance. But God, who has promised pardon to every repentant sinner, has not promised us tomorrow. Therefore we must always dread the final day, which we can never foresee. This very day is a day of truce, a day for conversion.”
  • "The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.”

- Pope St. Gregory the Great, Gregory I (Pope from September 3, 590 - March 12, 604 A.D.
                                                                 Died: March 12, 604 A.D.)

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