Don't draw back, and worse still, don't stop going up the Calvary of life. Jesus will extend His hand to steady you. The thought of the sustaining grace of God and the prize that Jesus has reserved for you will be a sweet comfort.

-- Saint Pio of Pietrelcina

Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

-- St. Thomas Aquinas

What was the life of Christ but a perpetual humiliation?

-- St. Vincent de Paul

You ask me a method of attaining perfection. I know of love - and only love. Love can do all things.

-- St Therese of Lisieux

There is no sin or wrong that gives a man a foretaste of hell in this life as anger and impatience.

-- St.Catherine of Sienna

Every virtue in your soul is a precious ornament which makes you dear to God and to man. But holy purity, the queen of virtues, the angelic virtue, is a jewel so precious that those who possess it become like the angels of God in Heaven, even though clothed in mortal flesh.

-- St. John Bosco

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

-- St. Angela Merici