Love with all the powers of your soul this God who is infinitely adorable and his divine Son who wanted to be crucified in reparation for our sins. May his beneficial thought never be absent from your spirit.
–Saint Clare of Assisi (1194-1253)
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
–Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Nothing is more opposed to God than pride, for self-deification is concealed in it, its own nothingness or sin. Thus more than anything humility is acceptable to God, which considers itself nothing, and attributes all goodness, honor, and glory to God alone. Pride does not accept grace, because it is full of itself, while humility easily accepts grace, because it is free from itself, and from all that is created. God creates out of nothing. As long as we think that we can offer something of ourselves, He does not begin His work in us.
–Saint Philaret of Moscow (1782-1867)
You know that there is no middle course, and that it is a question of being saved or lost for all eternity. It depends on us: either we may choose to love God eternally with the Saints in Heaven after we have done violence to self here below by mortifying and crucifying ourselves as they did, or else renounce their happiness by giving to nature all for which it craves.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690)
Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting.
–Saint Gennadius of Constantinople (Fifth Century)
IF
all the sleeping folks will wake up, and
all the lukewarm folks will fire up, and
all the disgruntled folks will sweeten up, and
all the discouraged folks will cheer up, and
all the depressed folks will look up, and
all the estranged folks will make up, and
all the gossiping folks will shut up, and
all the dry bones will shake up, and
all the true soldiers will stand up, and
all the church members will pray up, and
if the Savior of all will be lifted up,
then we can have the greatest renewal
this world has ever known.
–Richard Cushing (1895-1970)
