Remain called by God and persevere…
Strive with all your might to remain as you are called by God and to seek and desire all the ways and means necessary to persevere and make progress to the very end.
–Saint Angela Merici (1474-1540)
Practice every virtue…
Therefore, be constant in practicing every virtue, and especially in imitating the patience of our dear Jesus, for this is the summit of pure love. Live in such a way that all may know that you bear outwardly as well as inwardly the image of Christ crucified, the model of all gentleness and mercy. For if a man is united inwardly with the Son of the living God, he also bears his likeness outwardly by his continual practice of heroic goodness, and especially through a patience reinforced by courage, which does not complain either secretly or in public. Conceal yourselves in Jesus crucified, and hope for nothing except that all men be thoroughly converted to his will.
–Saint Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)
End and means…
One must be firm and unchanging with regard to the end but gentle and humble as to the means.
–Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660)
Continual practice…
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
–Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
May Christ be…
May Christ be heard in our language, may Christ be seen in our life, may he be perceived in our hearts.
–Saint Peter Damian (1007-1072)
Good example is…
Good example is the most efficacious apostolate. You must be as lighted lanterns and shine like brilliant chandeliers among men. By your good example and your words, animate others to know and love God.
–Saint Mary Joseph Rossello (1811-1880)
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