Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practice every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ’s Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God.
–Saint Gertrude (1256-1302)
Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them.
–Saint Peter of Alcantara (1499-1562)
Behold the source of every good, Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament, who says “If any man thirst, let him come to me.” (John 2:27) Oh, what torrents of grace have the saints drawn from the fountain of the Most Blessed Sacrament!
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
If we really loved the good God, we should make it our joy and happiness to come and spend a few moments to adore Him, and ask Him for the grace of forgiveness; and we should regard those moments as the happiest of our lives.
— Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
