Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
From this arid night there first of all comes self-knowledge, whence, as from a foundation, rises this other knowledge of God.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
It must be known that God dwells and is present substantially in every soul, even in that of the greatest sinner in the world.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Fittingly did the Spirit appear in fire in every heart that he enters, he kindles the desire of his own eternity.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
