Our willingness to…
Sometimes when our Lord asks us to do some good work, all He really wants is our willingness to do the work, and not its accomplishment.
— Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
We must serve…
We must serve our Lord according to his liking and not according to our own.
— Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
From this day…
From this day, from this hour, from this minute, let us strive to love God, above all, and fulfill his holy will.
— Saint Herman of Alaska (1756-1836)
Everyone has a mission…
Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random; we are not here, that we may go to bed at night, and get up in the morning, toil for our bread, eat and drink, laugh and joke, sin when we have a mind, and reform when we are tired of sinning, rear a family and die. God sees every one of us; He creates every soul, . . . for a purpose. He needs, He deigns to need, every one of us. He has an end for each of us; we are all equal in His sight, and we are placed in our different ranks and stations, not to get what we can out of them for ourselves, but to labor in them for Him. As Christ has His work, we too have ours; as He rejoiced to do His work, we must rejoice in ours also.
— Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Every Christian should…
Every Christian should find for himself the imperative and incentive to become holy. If you live without struggle and without hope of becoming holy, then you are Christians only in name and not in essence. But without holiness, no one shall see the Lord, that is to say they will not attain eternal blessedness. It is a trustworthy saying that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners (I Tim. 1:15). But we deceive ourselves if we think that we are saved while remaining sinners. Christ saves those sinners by giving them the means to become saints.
— Saint Philaret of Moscow (1782-1867)
Action, not speech
Remember that the Christian life is one of action, not speech and daydreams. Let there be few words and many deeds, and let them be done well.
— Saint Vincent Pallotti (1795-1850)
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