Quotes On The Seven Deadly Sins

Quotes On The Seven Deadly Sins

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

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous. - St. Alphonsus Liguori 

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

Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony. - St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

The recollection of an injury is . . . a rusty arrow and poison for the soul. -  St. Francis of Paola

If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life. - St. John Vianney 

He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms. - St. Philip Neri

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. - St. Augustine

Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness. -  St. Richard of Chichester

As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality. - St. Philip Neri

Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also through envy, envying our glory, our happiness. Why do we envy the happiness and the goods of others? Because we are proud; we should like to be the sole possessors of talents, riches, of the esteem and love of all the world! We hate our equals, because they are our equals; our inferiors, from the fear that they may equal us; our superiors, because they are above us. - Saint John Vianney

Heaven is not made for the slothful. - St. Philip Neri

The proud person is like a grain of wheat thrown into water: it swells, it gets big. Expose that grain to the fire: it dries up, it burns. The humble soul is like a grain of wheat thrown into the earth: it descends, it hides itself, it disappears, it dies; but to revive in heaven.  - Bl Mary of Jesus Crucified "The Little Arab"

Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you lose your soul, you lose all.  - St. Leonard-Port Maurice

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