How beautiful it is to behold a person destitute of all attachment, ready for any act of virtue or charity, gentle to all, indifferent as to any employment, serene in consolations and tribulations, and wholly content if only the will of God is done!

-- St. Francis de Sales

To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection.

-- St. Francis de Sales

Not without reward is God loved, although He should be loved without thought of reward.

-- St Bernard

I trust in Christ that he will enable me to undergo, in defense of his cause, the sharpest tortures you can inflict on my weak body.

-- St. Theophanes

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

-- St. Augustine

There is no doctrine which could be better, more precious and more splendid than the text of the Gospel. Behold and retain what our Lord and Master, Christ, has taught by his words and accomplished by his deeds.

-- St. Caesaria the Younger to St. Richildis and St. Radegunde

We must acknowledge that God is happiness itself!

-- St. Severvinus