Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure’s sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
–Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.
–Mother Angelica (1923-2016)
Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.
–Saint Clare of Assisi (1194-1253)
The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have no business on earth. They do not labor, but by contemplation alone they already live in heaven.
–Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231)
Do not be either astonished or discouraged at the difficulties you find in prayer. Only be constant and submissive, and God will be pleased with you.
–Saint Claude de la Colombiere (1641-1682)
Faith makes us open to the quiet presence of God at every moment of our lives, in every person and in every situation.
–Pope Francis (1936-
