When we have once placed ourselves entirely in the hands of God, we need fear no evil. If adversity comes, He knows how to turn it to our advantage, by means which will in time be made clear to us.

-- St. Vincent de Paul

The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, is God, one and equal with the Father and the Son, of the same substance and also of the same nature. . . Yet he is not called the Spirit of the Father alone,. . . but the Spirit of both the Father and the Son.

-- Council of Florence (1439)

God wishes to be asked, He wishes to be forced, He wishes, in a certain manner, to be overcome by our prayer.

-- Pope St. Gregory the Great

I want to be only a poor Friar who prays...Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer...Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God's heart. You must speak to Jesus with not only your lips but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should speak to Him only with your heart...

-- Saint Pio of Pietrelcina

If it were given a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

-- St. Catherine of Genoa

Take away self-will and there will be no hell.

-- St Bernard

Another very good path of repentance is to put out of our minds the harm done us by our enemies, in order to master our anger, and to forgive our fellow servants' sins against us. The end our own sins against the Lord will be forgiven us. Thus you have another way to atone for sins. Forgive you forgive your debtors, your heavenly Father will forgive you.

-- St. John Chrysostom

What, on the other hand, was the lot of the Pharisee? Here was a man praying, fasting and doing many good works, and in spite of all that he was censured by God. Why was this? Simply because he prided himself on his good works, and took satisfaction out of them as though they were of his own doing. Here we see a just man lacking humility and declared evil, and a sinner, conscious of his guilt and moved to a real sense of humility, justified because of his lowliness of heart.

-- St Vincent de Paul

If He who was without sin prayed, how much more ought sinners to pray?

-- St. Cyprian

Prayer ought to be humble, fervent, resigned, persevering, and accompanied with great reverence. One should consider that he stands in the presence of a God, and speaks with a Lord before whom the angels tremble from awe and fear.

-- St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi

There is something in humility that strangely exalts the heart.

-- St. Augustine

Conquer yourself and the world lies at your feet.

-- St. Augustine

That hope is deceitful which hopes to be saved amid the occasions of sin.

-- St. Augustine

Behold this Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming itself, in order to testify its love. In return, I receive from the greater part only ingratitude, by their irreverence and sacrileges, and by the coldness and contempt they have for me in this Sacrament of love... I come into the heart I have given you in order that through your fervor you may atone for the offenses which I have received from lukewarm and slothful hearts that dishonor me in the Blessed Sacrament.

-- Third apparition of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque