Angel' is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is 'spirit'; if you seek the name of their office, it is 'angel': from what they are, 'spirit', from what they do, 'angel.'

-- St. Augustine

Holy indifference is of the nature of pure love which directs the will to that which is most perfect and destroys every obstacle.

-- St. Vincent de Paul

It is not always in the soul's power not to feel a temptation. But it is always in its power not to consent to it!

-- St. Francis De Sales

There is a fragrance to filial obedience which nothing can replace, and of which no one ever grows tired; for this obedience is affectionate and free from self seeking. Our Lord demands it of us. He leaves a thin streamlet of it in our parents, but He wants the whole river for Himself. Let us give Him our whole heart.

-- St. Peter Eymard

What a person desires, if he worships it, is to him a god. A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

-- St. Jerome

Our Lord does not come down from Heaven every day to lie in a golden ciborium. He comes to find another heaven which is infinitely dearer to him-the heaven of our souls, created in His Image, the living temples of the Adorable Trinity.

-- St Thérèse of Lisieux

For He hath given His angels charge over thee; to keep thee in all thy ways. In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

-- Psalm xc. 11-12