At the Last Judgment I will not be asked whether I satisfactorily practised asceticism, nor how many bows I have made before the divine altar: I will be asked whether I fed the hungry, clothed the naked, visited the sick, and the prisoner in his jail. That is all I will be asked.
–Saint Maria of Paris (1891-1945)
As for me, I began to know Jesus as soon as I accepted Jesus as the truth; I found true peace when I actively sought his friendship; and above all I experienced joy, true joy, that stands above the vicissitudes of life, as soon as I tasted and experienced for myself the gift he came to bestow on us: eternal life.
–Carlo Carretto (1910-1988)
What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
–Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988)
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
–Karl Rahner (1904-1984)
If you are going to be a Christian at all, you might as well live entirely for God.
–Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi (1901–1964)
If you are sinful, repent so that you can communicate often. If you are imperfect, go often to Communion that you may amend your faults.
–Saint Claude de la Colombiere (1641-1682)
