As for us, we hold to what we believed ten and twenty years ago; to what our forefathers believed one hundred years ago, and one thousand years ago, and to that which the whole Catholic world has always believed.

-- Brother Solomon Le Clerq

I make myself a leper with the lepers, to gain all for Jesus Christ.

-- Blessed Damien Joseph de Veuster

The joy of this life is nothing; the joy of the after life is everlasting.

-- Blessed William Hart

Continue to pray that God may console you when you feel that the weight of the cross is becoming too burdensome. Acting thus you are not doing anything against the will of God, but are with the Son of God Who, in the garden, asked His Father for some relief. But if it does not please Him to do this, be ready to say with Jesus,"Fiat".

-- 1971) commenting on the life of Padre Pio

And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

-- Psalm lxxxviii. 25

Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

-- Ps. xliv. 8

Although the supernatural means comes first in all apostolate, Our Lord still wants us to use all the human possibilities we can. Grace does not replace nature and we cannot ask Our Lord for extraordinary assistance or help when, through the ordinary channels, God has placed the necessary instruments in our hands. A person who would not try to do everything in his power, and who expected divine help for everything, would be tempting God, and the grace of God would cease to act.

-- St. Thomas Aquinas