Sermons from the Mount

He overpowered the dragon, that primeval serpent which is the devil and Satan, and chained him up for a thousand years.

‘Alleluia! Victory and glory and power to our God! his judgments are true and just!'

‘How great and wonderful are all your works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are all your ways, King of nations.'

‘Put your sickle in and reap: harvest time has come and the harvest of the earth is ripe.’

"In my vision I, John, saw Mount Zion, and standing on it a Lamb who had with him a hundred and forty-four thousand people, all with his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads."

‘Then the King will say to those on his right hand, “Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take for your heritage the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world.

"Sing, rejoice, daughter of Zion; for I am coming to dwell in the middle of you."

I went to the angel and asked him to give me the small scroll, and he said, ‘Take it and eat it; it will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey.’I went to the angel and asked him to give me the small scroll, and he said, ‘Take it and eat it; it will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey.’

‘There is no need to cry: the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed, and he will open the scroll and the seven seals of it.’

‘Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God, the Almighty; he was, he is and he is to come.’

Brace yourself, it's gonna get uncomfortable: "I know all about you: how you are neither cold nor hot."

Nevertheless, I have this complaint to make; you have less love now than you used to. Think where you were before you fell; repent, and do as you used to at first.

“Well done, good and faithful servant; you have shown you can be faithful in small things, I will trust you with greater; come and join in your master’s happiness.”

"Jesus told his disciples a parable about the need to pray continually and never lose heart."

"Anyone who tries to preserve his life will lose it; and anyone who loses it will keep it safe."

Philemon and Onesimus ... now a pair of brothers!

‘Were not all ten made clean? The other nine, where are they? It seems that no one has come back to give praise to God, except this foreigner.’

When you have done all you have been told to do, say, “We are merely servants: we have done no more than our duty.”

St John Lateran ... pray for us?

“The bridegroom is here! Go out and meet him.”

"Use money, tainted as it is, to win you friends, and thus make sure that when it fails you, they will welcome you into the tents of eternity."

"The children of this world are more astute in dealing with their own kind than are the children of light."

"There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one repentant sinner than over ninety-nine virtuous men who have no need of repentance."

"If any man comes to me without hating his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple."

"He emptied himself to assume the condition of a slave, and became as men are; and being as all men are, he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross."