This is a Friend who will not terrify you, who will not abandon you. Hope in Him, and Heaven is yours!

-- St Joseph Cafasso

What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

 -- St. John Chrysostom

Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?

-- St Vincent de Paul

The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God.

-- St Sebastian

If according to times and needs you should be obliged to make fresh rules and change current things, do it with prudence and good advice.

-- St Angela Merici

We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to find a place where we can be alone and look upon Him present within us.

-- St Teresa of Avila

He was chosen by the eternal Father as the trustworthy guardian and protector of his greatest treasures, namely, his divine Son and Mary, Joseph's wife. He carried out this vocation with complete fidelity until at last God called him, saying 'Good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of your Lord.'

-- St Bernadine of Siena

Remember that the Christian life is one of action; not of speech and daydreams. Let there be few words and many deeds, and let them be done well.

-- St Vincent Pallotti

The spiritual combat in which we kill our passions to put on the new man is the most difficult struggle of all. We must never weary of this combat, but fight the holy fight fervently and perseveringly.

-- St Nilus

Never utter in your neighbor's absence what you would not say in their presence.

-- St Mary Magdalen de Pazzi

Even though I had committed but one little sin, I should have ample reason to repent of it all my life.

-- St Francis of Assisi

He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

-- St Bede the Venerable

Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you, for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart.

-- St Therese of Lisieux