Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
— Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in your passage through life.
–Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
–Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Life and death are in God’s Hands, He disposes of them as He sees fit.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
True love is found only in complete self-forgetfulness, and it is only after we have detached ourselves from every creature that we find Jesus.
–Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897)
