God is more pleased by one work, however small, done secretly, without desire that it be known, than a thousand done with the desire that people know of them. Those who work for God with purest love not only care nothing about whether others see their works, but do not even seek that God himself know of them.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
God is never absent from the soul.
— Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
God does not fit in an occupied heart.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself if you have resolved to abandon your sins.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Mercy is a compassion that seeks to unburden the sorrows of others as if they were our own. But if we have no such compassion, then how can compassion ever come back to us? Unless we throw something up, nothing will come down; unless there is an action, there can never be a reaction; unless we give, it shall not be given to us; unless we love, we shall not be loved; unless we pardon evil, our evil shall not be forgiven; unless we are merciful to others, God cannot be merciful to us.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
