If we are faced with difficulties, we will turn to God for help with many difficulties, we will turn to God for help with increasing frequency. As God continues to help, even the coldest heart will be warmed.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
How can you entertain a doubt of Jesus pardoning your sins, when He has affixed them to the Cross, whereon He died for you, with the very nails by which His own hands were pierced?
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
We may conclude that persons who suffer from scruples are the most favored by divine love, and the most certain of reaching Heaven when they bear this trial in patience and humility. Scrupulous souls die continually, they suffer a perpetual purgatory, and so they leave the earth to fly to Heaven purified and free from sins to expiate.
–Blessed Henry Suso (c. 1295-1366)
How could one live without the knowledge of Scripture, through which one learns to know Christ himself, who is the life of believers?
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of Scriptures is the bulwark of the Church.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
God calls us to correct ourselves and invites us to do penance. He calls us through the wonderful gifts of his creation, and he calls us by granting time for life. He calls us through the reader and through the preacher. He calls us with the innermost force of our thoughts. He calls us with the scourge of punishment, and he calls us with the mercy of his consolation.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
