The world would be better off if people tried to become better, and people would become better if they stopped trying to become better off. For when everyone tries to become better off nobody is better off. But when everyone tries to become better everyone is better off.
— Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
When shall it be that we shall taste the sweetness of the Divine Will in all that happens to us, considering in everything only His good pleasure, by whom it is certain that adversity is sent with as much love as prosperity, and as much for our good? When shall we cast ourselves undeservedly into the arms of our most loving Father in Heaven, leaving to Him the care of ourselves and of our affairs, and reserving only the desire of pleasing Him, and of serving Him well in all that we can?
— Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
I knew nothing; I was nothing. For this reason, God picked me out.
— Saint Catherine Laboure (1806-1876)
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, who does not change.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
My last word to you, by which I implore you even with my blood, is that you live in harmony, united together, all of one heart and one will. Be bound to one another by the bond of charity, esteeming each other, helping each other, bearing with each other in Jesus Christ.
— Saint Angela Merici (1474-1540)
