Daily Thought For May 16, 2017

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A Dilemma For Every Generation
     
 
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. 
 
Leo Tolstoy

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Daily Thought For October 12, 2014

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Judge Your Feelings Feelings, even pleasant ones, can be from our enemy or from our friend, that is, from the evil one or from the one who is all goodness. Now, we can discern whence they come by certain signs, of which here are a few that will suffice to guide you.  When we do not rest in them, but when we make use of them only for recreation in order afterward to fulfill with a greater constancy the duties and work that God has confided to us, that is a good sign. God sometimes gives us consolations for this reason. He condescends to our infirmity. He sees that our taste for spiritual things has dulled, and he gives us a little gravy, but only to prompt us to desire the nourishing meat. It is therefore a good indication when we do not tarry in the enjoyment of our feelings, for when the evil one gives us certain feelings, he wants us to rest in them; when we do, when we eat  only gravy, our spiritual stomachs become weakened and spoiled.  Secondly, the right so...
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