When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings.

-- St. Paul of the Cross

Take care not to meddle in things which do not concern you, nor even allow them to pass through your mind; for perhaps you will not then be able to fulfill your own task.

-- St. John of the Cross

It should be our principal business to conquer ourselves and, from day to day, to go on increasing in strength and perfection. Above all, however, it is necessary for us to strive to conquer our little temptations, such as fits of anger, suspicions, jealousies, envy, deceitfulness, vanity, attachments, and evil thoughts. For in this way we shall acquire strength to subdue greater ones.

-- St. Francis De Sales

My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my words to the King.

-- Psalm xliv. 2

God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of trumpet.

-- Ps. xlvi. 6

Diligence in prayer is the perfection of the Gospel.

-- St. Aloysius Gonzaga

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

-- Pope John Paul II

If one yields ground on any single point of Catholic doctrine, one will later have to yield later in another, and again in another, and so on until such surrenders come to be something normal and acceptable. And when one gets used to rejecting dogma bit by bit, the final result will be the repudiation of it altogether.

-- St Vincent of Lerins

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends to make you a Saint.

-- St Ignatius Loyola

Anxiety proceeds from an ill-regulated desire to be delivered from the evil we experience, or to acquire the good to which we aspire; nevertheless, nothing aggravates evil and hinders good so much as anxiety and worry.

-- St Francis de Sales

Nothing is anything more to me; everything is nothing to me, but Jesus: neither things nor persons, neither ideas nor emotions, neither honor nor sufferings. Jesus is for me honor, delight, heart and soul.

-- St Bernadette

For the spirit of the wisdom hath filled the whole world

-- Wis. i. 7

And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.

-- Ps. lxxx. 17

O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when thou didst pass through the desert: The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.

-- Ps. lxvii. 8,9