For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: ‘Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.’ Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.
–Saint Basil the Great (330-379)
Continue to love Jesus and make an effort to love Him more and more, without desiring to know anything else.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
The root of all evil is ‘I’, ‘Me,’ ‘Mine.’
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
Together with the grace of suffering, spiritual tempests bring the grace of humility, a new, deep humility that hollows out in the soul a void so immense that God fits into it.
–Luis M. Martinez (1881-1956)
To be quiet then, to choose not to excuse ourselves when we could, through love of humility, is a silence that imitates Jesus in His Passion.
–Luis M. Martinez (1881-1956)
