Ah! Many of us are more afraid of poverty than of humility or modesty or any other virtue. We must therefore take to poverty resolutely if we want to resemble our Lord. Let each one of us, according to his condition, aim at having fewer and less expensive things. Let everything that we buy or receive be a tribute to the holy poverty of our Master Jesus Christ. We shall want to depend on Him for everything: on His light for our mind, on His grace for our will, on His love for our heart, on His Cross for our body. Do not seek any other. He is always here in The Blessed Sacrament.

-- St. Peter Emyard

The whole world is asleep, and God, so full of goodness, so great, so worthy of all praise, no one is thinking of Him! See nature praises Him, and man....who ought to praise Him, sleeps! Let us go and wake up the universe.... and sing praises!

-- St. Mariam Baouardy

One whose soul is in disorder, whose mind is wandering with vain, useless thoughts, cannot pray. To pray, we must unite the flesh and its feelings to the soul with its imagination, memory and will.

-- St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

God is so good and merciful, that to obtain Heaven it is sufficient to ask it of Him from our hearts.

-- St. Benedict Joseph Labre

How often I have failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer!

-- St. Theresa of Avila

You must ask God to give you power to fight against the sin of pride which is your greatest enemy - the root of all that is evil, and the failure of all that is good. For God resists the proud.

-- St. Vincent de Paul

What could be more out of keeping with our holy religion then impure language? It outrages God. It scandalizes our neighbor. Can a Christian really afford to occupy his mind with such horrible images?

-- St. John Vianney

Someone says: " It is nothing to me how long I stay in purgatory, so long as I go on finally to erternal life." Let no one say that, beloved brethren, because that purgatorial fire itself will be more difficult than any punishments that can be seen or imagined or felt in this life.

-- St. Caesarius of Arles

God is seen by those who have the capacity to see him, provided that they keep the eyes of their mind open. All have eyes, but some have eyes that are shrouded in darkness, unable to see the light of the sun. Because the blind cannot see it, it does not follow that the sun does not shine. The blind must trace the cause back to themselves and their eyes. In the same way, you have eyes in your mind that are shrouded in darkness because of your sins and evil deeds. No one who has sin within him can see God. If you understand this, and live in purity and holiness and justice, you may see God.

-- Saint Theophilus of Antioch

In the same way a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.

-- St. Amma Syncletice

There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death.

-- St. John Damascene, De fide orthodoxa. 2, 4

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.

-- St. Alphonsus Liguori

Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.

-- St. Jerome

Our self will is so subtle and so deeply rooted within us, so covered with excuses and defended by false reasoning, that it seems to be a demon. When we cannot do our own will in one way, we do it in another, under all kinds of pretexts.

-- St. Catherine of Genoa

No one really wants to sin against God, even though we do all sin without being forced to do so.

-- St. John Climacus

What Revelation makes known to us is confirmed by our own experience. For when man looks into his own heart he finds that he is drawn towards what is wrong and sunk in many evils which cannot come from his good Creator. Often refusing to acknowledge God as his source, man has also upset the relationship which should link him to his last end, and at the same time he has broken the right order that should reign within himself as well as between himself and other men and all creatures.

-- Gaudium et spes

How can a man say he believes in Christ if he doesn't do what Christ commanded him to do?

-- St. Cyprian of Carthage

The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing.

-- Lateran Council IV

The very tradition, teaching, and faith of the Catholic Church from the beginng, which the Lord gave, was preached by the apostles and was preserved by the Fathers. On this was the Church founded, and if anyone departs from this, he neither is, nor any longer ought to be called, a Christian.

-- St. Athanasius of Alexandria

What has a person to fear who lives in the arms and bosom of God?

-- St. Paul of the Cross

As God recognized each of us before we were born, and called us by name, so too may we recognize the value of each human life and pledge ourselves to continue to defend and nurture God's greatest gift to us.

-- NCCB 1992 Respect Life Manual