Look, look on Jesus, poor and crucified, look on this Holy One, who for your love has died, and remember as you contemplate the sacred mysteries, this Jesus whom you gaze upon, loves you most tenderly.
–Saint Clare of Assisi (1194-1253)
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.
— GK Chesterton (1874-1936)
Our future reward is made manifest through the impulses of the heart. A merciful heart will receive mercy, while a merciless heart will receive the opposite.
— Saint Mark the Ascetic (Fifth Century)
So there is earthly and heavenly mercy: that is, human and divine. What is human mercy? Exactly this: to have care for the sufferings of the poor. What is divine mercy? Without doubt, to grant forgiveness of sins. Whatever human mercy gives away on the journey, divine mercy pays back when we arrive at last in our native land.
— Saint Caesarius of Arles (460-542)
Without effort, even in the most painful hours of life, we can taste the admirable poetry of the psalms and find in them light, rest, strength, renewal of all energies.
–Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877–1964)
God’s plans are always for the best, always wonderful. But most especially for the patient and the humble who trust in Him are His plans unfathomably holy and sublime.
–Blessed Solanus Casey (1870-1957)
