What kind of work can be more noble than to cultivate the minds of young people, guarding it carefully, so that the knowledge and love of God and His holy precepts go hand-in-hand with learning? To form young Christians and citizens — isn’t this the most beautiful and noble-minded way to make use of life, of all one’s talents and energy?
— Saint John Cantius (1390-1473)
Thank God for the grace he has given you in sharing in the ministry of the apostles and of the great bishops and pastors of the Church. Take pride in your ministry.
–Saint John Baptiste de la Salle (1651-1719)
If you have a heart, you can be saved.
–Abba Pambo (A Desert Father)
In friendship are joined honor and charm, truth and joy, sweetness and good-will, affection and action. And all these take their beginning from Christ, advance through Christ, and are perfected in Christ.
–Saint Aelred of Rievaulx 1110-1167)
And when I see the way people live — so many of them set in their ways and living in habitual mortal sin; not a day goes by that they do not add to the number of their sins. They sin as easily as they would take a glass of water; they commit iniquities as if it were a joke, for a laugh. They are really tragic figures, marching on their own two feet toward hell.
— Saint Anthony Claret (1807-1870)
In the Holy Scriptures we see God face to face, and ourselves as we are.
–Saint John of Kronstadt (1829-1908)
