To be a servant of God means to be charitable towards one’s neighbors, to have an unshakeable determination in the superior part of your soul to obey the will of God, to trust in God with a very humble humility and simplicity, and to lift oneself up as often as one falls, to endure with all your abjections and to quietly put up with others in their imperfections.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Let the young man look after the flesh, and the old man after avarice, and we shall all be saints together.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
The soul is capable of much more than we can imagine.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
The way to avoid distress and affliction of mind in this world is to strive to conform our will wholly to God’s.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
