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Affliction borne for God…

A small affliction borne for God’s sake is better before God than a great work performed without tribulation, because affliction willingly borne brings to light the proof of love. But a work of leisure proceeds from a self-satisfied conscience. That is why the saints were proved by tribulations for Christ’s love, and not by ease. For good works accomplished without toil are the righteousness of those in the world, who do righteous deeds with their possessions but not their bodies, thus gaining nothing within themselves. But you, O struggler, taste within yourself Christ’s suffering, that you may be deemd worthy of tasting His glory. For if we suffer with Him, then we are glorified with Him (cf. Rom. 8:17).
–Saint Isaac of Syria (Seventh Century)

Action and contemplation…

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)

Show reverence and honor…

I beg you to show the greatest possible reverence and honor for the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things, whether on earth or in heaven, have been brought to peace and reconciled with Almighty God.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 – 1226)

Let the world shake…

Let the whole world of mankind tremble the whole world shake and the heavens exult when Christ, the Son of the living God, is on the altar in the hands of a priest. O admirable heights and sublime lowliness! O sublime humility! O humble sublimity! That the Lord of the universe, God and the Son of God, so humbles Himself that for our salvation He hides Himself under the little form of bread! Look, brothers, at the humility of God and pour out your hearts before Him! Humble yourselves, as well, that you may be exalted by Him. Therefore, hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He Who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)

Grace warms through love…

When we consider the properties of fire, we realize that it is an accurate description of grace. Fire has brightness in appearance, warmness of effect, quickness of movement. In the same way, grace shines because of knowledge, warms through love, enkindles –and moves as a result of prayerfulness. Grace shines because of the knowledge through which God provides light for our eyes and shows us the path stretching homewards… Grace warms through love. It is through love that God arouses our hearts… Grace stretches and moves upwards as a result of prayerfulness which lifts the heart towards higher aims… Without this fire, there is no life. Consequently everyone should exert himself in order to possess this.
–Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274)

Free gifts of God…

For all that we are, and all that we have received, from without and from within, these are all the free gifts of God; for which we must thank and praise Him, and with which we must serve Him, if we are to please Him.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)

The grace of God…

Now all holiness and all blessedness lie in this: that the spirit is led upwards, through likeness and by means of grace or glory, to rest in the essential unity. For the grace of God is the way by which we must always go, if we would enter into the naked essence in which God gives Himself with all His riches without means.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)

We must renounce…

And in this inward-drawing touch, we feel that God wills us to be His; and therefore, we must renounce ourselves and leave Him to work our blessedness. But where He touches us by the outpouring touch, He leaves us to ourselves, and makes us free, and sets us in His Presence, and teaches us to pray in the spirit and to ask in freedom, and shows us His incomprehensible riches in such manifold ways as we are able to grasp.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)

God’s grace is ready…

For God’s grace is made ready for all men, and awaits the conversion of every sinner, and whenever a sinner, urged by grace, renounces himself and will call upon God with faith, he finds pardon. And likewise, whosoever through grace with loving contentment turns towards the Eternal Contentment of God, he is enwrapped and embraced in the abysmal love which is God Himself. And thereby he is perpetually renewed in love and in the virtues; for, between our contentment in God and God’s contentment in us there abides an activity of love and of eternal life.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)

Subdue the spirit…

To subdue the spirit is harder than to afflict the flesh
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)

One who has God…

He who has God lacks nothing, though he has nought else.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)

Sloth and lukewarmness…

In your good works and holy exercises, avoid all sloth and lukewarmness as your worst enemy.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)

Humility and charity…

Humility and charity are the two master-chords: one, the lowest; the other, the highest; all the others are dependent on them.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

Praying before the…

Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to God, and most useful to ourselves. for He has made the promise, ‘Ask, and you shall receive,’ but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)

Adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament…

Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to God, and most useful to ourselves. Do not then, O devout soul, refuse to begin this devotion; and forsaking the conversation of men, dwell each day, from this time forward, for at least half or quarter of an hour, in some church, in the presence of Jesus Christ under the sacramental species. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)

Gently recall your mind when…

Gently recall your mind when it wanders . . . unceasingly gather up again your scattered spirit. Turn your inward eye once more towards Him . . . persevere with an unconquered heart.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

Those who really love God…

Those who really love God love all good, seek all good, help forward all good, praise all good, and invariably join forces with good people and help and defend them. They love only truth and things worthy of love.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

Receive it always…

If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me; because I constantly sin, I constantly need to have the remedy.
–Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-397)

Approach this table…

We must approach this table with fear, for our mind must understand that reverence is due Him whose body we are coming to receive. For the mind ought to judge this way within itself, because it is the Lord whose blood we drink in this mystery.
–Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-397)

It is DAILY bread…

If it is “daily bread,” why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year.
–Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-397)

The Blessed Sacrament…

My sweetest joy is to be in the presence of Jesus in the holy Sacrament. I beg that when obliged to withdraw in body, I may leave my heart before the holy Sacrament. How I would miss Our Lord if He were to be away from me by His presence in the Blessed Sacrament!
–Saint Katharine Drexel (1858-1955)

True Eucharistic prayer…

Do you wish to learn the secret of true Eucharistic prayer? Consider, then, all the mysteries in the light of the Blessed Sacrament. It is a divine prism through which they can all be studied. The Holy Eucharist is, indeed, ‘Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today, and the same forever’ (Heb 13:8). In this Sacrament He glorifies all the mysteries of His life and prolongs, as it were, the exercise of all His virtues. The Eucharist is, in a word, the great Mystery of our faith to which all Catholic truths lead.
–Saint Peter Julian Eymard (1811-1868)

Live on the divine Eucharist…

Live on the divine Eucharist, like the Hebrews did on the Manna. Your soul can be entirely dedicated to the divine Eucharist and very holy in the midst of your work and contacts with the world.
–Saint Peter Julian Eymard (1811-1868)

Receive Communion often…

When we work hard, we must eat well. What a joy, that you can receive Holy Communion often! It’s our life and support in this life — Receive Communion often, and Jesus will change you into himself.
–Saint Peter Julian Eymard (1811-1868)

We must carry Jesus in our…

We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless we take Him to them. None of us knows when the loveliest hour of our life is striking. It may be when we take Christ for the first time to that grey office in the city where we work, to the wretched lodging of that poor man who is an outcast, to the nursery of that pampered child, to that battleship, airfield, or camp…
–Caryll Houselander (1901-1954)

Every time you take Communion…

Try to set alight in yourself a warm desire for this sacrament and to make progress every day both in your fervent readiness to do only God’s will, and in spiritual wisdom, making it the queen and ruler over all your actions of the spirit, the soul and the body. Every time you take communion, while partaking of this bloodless sacrifice, offer yourself as a sacrifice to God, that is, profess your complete readiness to endure every affliction, every sorrow and every wrong you may meet in the course of your life, for the sake of the love of God, Who sacrificed Himself for us.
— Lawrence Scupoli (1529-1610)

Die of love…

How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?
–Saint Teresa of the Andes (1900-1920)

Spiritual childhood is…

Spiritual childhood is the fundamental attitude of a disciple; it is the result of mature faith; it means self-surrender to the will of God; it is the joyful confidence of a small child. This childlike spirit disturbs human logic and stands in opposition to temptations of pride and domination that are at the root of evil and oppression in our world.
–Little Sister Magdeleine (1898–1989)

Falling in love…

Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.
–Caryll Houselander (1901-1954)

Refusing to accept…

Refusing to accept God’s love because we’re unworthy – of course we’re unworthy! – is another golden calf.
–Madeline L’Engle (1918-2007)

I will glory because…

I will glory not because I am righteous but because I am redeemed; I will glory not because I am free from sins but because my sins are forgiven me. I will not glory because I have done good nor because someone has done good to me but because Christ is my advocate with the Father and because the blood of Christ has been shed for me.
–Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-397)

If you behave…

Some people living carelessly in the world have asked me: ‘We have wives and are beset with social cares, and how can we lead the solitary life?’ I replied to them: ‘Do all the good you can; do not speak evil of anyone; do not steal from anyone; do not lie to anyone; do not be arrogant towards anyone; do not hate anyone; do not be absent from the divine services; be compassionate to the needy; do not offend anyone; do not wreck another man’s domestic happiness, and be content with what your own wives can give you. If you behave in this way, you will not be far from the Kingdom of Heaven.
–Saint John Climacus (c. 525-606)

The Church is like…

In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship but to keep her on her course.
–Saint Boniface (c. 675-754)

A soul abandoned….

A soul abandoned completely to Divine Providence desires only God and is detached from all but him: there is no eventuality that can unsettle her. Nothing so strips the soul and gives it greater dependence on God than the practice of the maxim of our blessed Father Francis de Sales: Ask for nothing and refuse nothing.
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)

It is attachment…

It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690)

Detaching your heart…

You see plainly that I do not mean to advise you to perform great austerities, but rather generously to mortify your passions and inclinations, detaching your heart and emptying it of all that is earthly, and exercising charity towards your neighbor and liberality towards the poor.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690)

To be poor in spirit is…

To be poor in spirit is to be truly poor at the bottom of one’s soul, truly detached from all things, not only to be truly deprived of material goods, not only not to desire them, but to completely forget oneself, to have a soul empty not only of all earthly desires, but of all desire and absolutely so, whether concerning oneself or others, of self, of material things, absolutely empty of everything, and full of God.
–Blessed Charles De Foucauld (1858-1916)

Be ready for death…

Pray that you may always be ready for death, because you know that it may well come at any moment. Mishaps – a fatal fall, a mugging, a drowning, a heart attack, a stroke of lightning, and other things of this kind – occur every day. If we are prepared, we need not fear death, no matter how and when it comes.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)

Death is unavoidable…

Many people in this world do not want to think of death. My sons, keep in mind that whether we think of it or not, death is unavoidable.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)

Curtness hardens hearts…

Curtness in words or actions only hardens hearts and depresses them, whereas gentleness encourages them and makes them
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)

Sending us an opportunity…

Do not suppose that you will have to offer God no more than you have planned; you will have to give Him much more. He rewards good works by sending us an opportunity for greater ones.
–Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

Speak or keep silence….

In a general way, it can be said that when it is for the honor of God or the good of our neighbor, we ought to speak. When it concerns only ourselves, it is almost always more perfect to keep silence, in imitation of our Lord in His Passion.
–Luis M. Martinez (1881-1956)

Silence is indispensable…

As an audience maintains silence to hear better the voice of an orator, as music lovers keep silence during a symphony to admire its artistic beauty, so the silence of contemplation is nothing other than the indispensable condition for hearing the voice of God and addressing to Him our heartfelt words.
–Luis M. Martinez (1881-1956)

To attain silence…

If we want to attain silence in the interior of our hearts, we ought to begin by investigating the causes of the clamor within us. Ordinarily there are two causes of interior noise: the imagination and the heart. How often it happens that we enter the presence of Jesus to converse sweetly with Him, and then the imagination begins to skip around, carrying us hither and thither… At other times, the source of the din is in the heart. Except in cases of abnormal agitation, the imagination never produces the clamor that the heart produces. When we are under the stress of some particular emotion, such as love, fear, desire, or anger, we cannot compose our spirit; our soul seems like a city full of noise.
–Luis M. Martinez (1881-1956)

Accept trials provided…

Many people would be ready to accept trials provided they were not inconvenienced by them.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622

Complain little because…

Complain as little as possible of your wrongs, for, as a general rule you may be sure that complaining is sin: self-love always magnifies our injuries.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

Complain as little as…

Complain as little as possible about the wrongs you suffer. Undoubtedly a person who complains commits a sin by doing so, since self-love always feels that injuries are worse than they really are.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

No need to worry…

There is no need to worry overmuch when or where we shall die; in what town or in what country we shall die; whether alone or with others we shall die. What doe sit matter? Leave it to God, for He will never fail us whether in life or in death.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

By living generously…

We lose nothing by living generously, nobly, courteously and with a royal, just and reasonable heart. Resolve to examine your heart often to see if it such toward your neighbor as you would like your neighbor’s to be toward you were you in your neighbor’s place.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

God’s providence…

All we have to do is to leave ourselves to God’s providence, asking nothing and refusing nothing: that is the essence of human perfection. Don’t ask God for death; don’t refuse death when God sends it. Happy those who practice this indifference, who prepare for a happy death – whenever God should decree it – by living a good life!
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

Perseverance is the…

Perseverance is the most desirable gift we can hope for in this life, and the one which…we cannot have but from the hand of God, who alone can assure him that stands, and help him up that falls.Therefore we must incessantly demand it, making use of the means which Our Savior has taught us to the obtaining of it: prayer, fasting, alms-deeds, frequenting the sacraments, intercourse with the good, the hearing and reading of holy words.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

Seasons in your soul…

I see that all of the seasons of the year converge in your soul: at times you experience all the dryness, distraction, disgust and boredom of winter; at other times, all the dew and fragrance of the little flowers in May time; and again, the warmth of a desire to please God. All that remains is autumn, and you say that you do not see much of its fruit. Yet it often happens that in threshing the wheat and pressing the grapes we discover more than the harvest or vintage promised. You would like it to be always spring or summer; but no, dear daughter, we have to experience interior as well as exterior changes. Only in heaven will everything be springtime as to beauty, autumn as to enjoyment and summer as to love. There will be no winter there; but here below we need winter so that we may practice self-denial and the countless small but beautiful virtues that can be practiced during a barren season. Let us go on our little way; so long as we mean well and hold on to our resolve, we can only be on the right track.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

Ready for death…

Keep ready! One who is not ready for a good death today runs the risk of dying a bad one.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)

When death is near…

Things look very different when death is near.
— Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)

Through the Cross…

Before the time of Christ, the cross was an instrument of punishment; it evoked fear and aversion. But after Christ’s death on the Cross it became the instrument of our salvation. Through the Cross, Christ destroyed the devil; from the Cross He descended into hades and, having liberated those languishing there, led them into the Kingdom of Heaven. The sign of the Cross is terrifying to demons and, as the sign of Christ, it is honored by Christians.
–Saint John Maximovich (1896-1966)

The Cross means…

The Cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.
–Saint John Paul (1920-2005)

Ladder to heaven…

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.
–Saint Rose of Lima (1586-1617)

Carrying the cross…

No other grace can be compared with that of carrying the cross out of love for our Lord.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647- 1690)

Through the Cross…

The Lord accomplished our salvation by His death on the Cross: on the Cross He tore up the handwriting of our sins; through the Cross He reconciled us with our God and Father; and through the Cross He brought down upon us grace-filled gifts and all heavenly blessings.
–Saint Theophan the Recluse (1815-1894)

Embrace the crosses…

We must strive to embrace the crosses which God sends us with a willing, even joyful, heart.
–Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos (1819–1867)

Endurance of the cross…

The patient and humble endurance of the cross – whatever nature it may be – is the highest work we have to do.
–Saint Katherine Drexel (1858-1955)

The weight of the cross…

Continue to pray that God may console you when you feel the weight of the Cross is becoming too burdensome. Acting thus you are not doing anything against the Will of God, but are with the Son of God Who, in the garden, asked His father for some relief. But if it does not please Him to do this, be ready to say with Jesus, ‘Fiat!’
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)

Everyone has his cross…

On this earth everyone has his cross. But we must act in such a way that we be not the bad, but good thief.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)

The Cross will not…

The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)

Resplendent with beauty…

If things created are so full of loveliness, how resplendent with beauty must be the One who made them!
–Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231)

Sublime magnificence of created things…

If there is anyone who is not enlightened by this sublime magnificence of created things, he is blind. If there is anyone who, seeing all these works of God, does not praise Him, he is dumb; if there is anyone who, from so many signs, cannot perceive God, that mis foolish.
–Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274)

Stretching unto God…

A blind feeling of one’s own being, stretching unto God
–The Cloud of Unknowing (Fourteenth Century)

Hanging by God’s thread…

Hanging by God’s thread of pure Love
–Saint Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510)

Contemplation is a…

Contemplation is a perception of God or of divine things, simple, free, penetrating, certain, proceeding from love, and tending to love.
–Louis Lallemant (1578–1635)

Continual communion through…

Continual communion through all things by quite simply doing everything in the presence of the Holy Trinity
–Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906)

Seeing God in..

Seeing God in everything and everything in God with completely extraordinary clearness and delicacy
–Blessed Marie of the Incarnation (1599-1672)

Confession heals…

Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy. Believe it firmly. Do not doubt, do not hesitate, never despair of the mercy of God. Hope and have confidence in confession.
–Saint Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636)

Genuine confession…

Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered by the grace of God.
— Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)

If we fail…

We must faithfully keep what we have promised. If through human weakness we fail, we must always without delay arise again by means of holy penance, and give our attention to leading a good life and to dying a holy death.
–Saint Colette of Corbie (1381-1447)

The cause of bad confession…

The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.
–Saint Benedict Joseph Labre (1748-1783)

Attend church for…

Do not think that now you do not need to come to church if I am not here to look after you. You must attend church not for people, but for God, Who sees the hearts of those who come.
–Saint John Maximovich (1896-1966)

Mark of holiness…

The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man. It risks being vain and sterile.
–Blessed Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)

A crisis in the Church…

When there is a crisis in the church, it is always here: a crisis of contemplation. The church wants to feel able to explain about her spouse even when she has lost sight of him; even when, although she has not been divorced, she no longer knows his embrace, because curiosity has gotten the better of her and she has gone searching for other people and other things.
–Carlo Carretto (1910-1988)

Church has one task…

The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but when she acknowledges her own weakness and proclaims her Lord, she is strong.
–Avery Dulles (1918-2008)

A soul on fire with charity…

A good tree, that is, a good heart as well as a soul on fire with charity, can do nothing but good and holy works. For this reason Saint Augustine said: “Love, and do what you will,” namely, possess love and charity and then do what you will. It is as if he had said: Charity is not able to sin.
–Saint Angela Merici (1474-1540)

Want God to hear your prayers?

If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make them buy it.
–Saint Thomas of Villanova (1488-1555)

When you are generous..

What great profit you gain from God when you are generous! You give a coin and receive a kingdom; you give bread from wheat and receive the Bread of Life; you give a transitory good and receive an everlasting one. You will receive it back, a hundred times more than you offered.
–Saint Thomas of Villanova (1488-1555)

Dealing with misfortunes…

A man of discernment, meditating on the healing Divine Providence, bears with thanksgiving the misfortunes that come to him. He sees their causes in his own sins, and not in anyone else. But a mindless man, when he sins and receives the punishment for it, considers the cause of his misfortune to be God, or people, not understanding God’s care for him.
–Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)

Trials are sent…

Trials are sent to some so as to take away past sins, to others so as to eradicate sins now being committed, and to yet others so as to forestall sins which may be committed in the future.
–Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)

Do not be discouraged…

Do not be discouraged if physical sickness comes upon you. Who are you to take offense if your Lord and Master wishes you to be afflicted in your body? Does he not care for you in every way? Could you live without him? Resign yourself and beseech God to grant you what is appropriate, that is, according to his will; remain patiently.
–The Desert Fathers (and Mothers)

Peace and tranquility…

A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquility of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.
–Saint Dorotheus of Gaza (Sixth Century)

Establish our hearts…

Sometimes we are unduly excited when things go well, and at other times we are too alarmed when things go badly. . . We ought to establish our hearts firmly in God’s strength, and struggle, as best we can, to place all of our hope and confidence in the Lord so that we shall be like him, as far as it is possible, even in his unchanging rest and stability.
–Blessed Jordan of Saxony (c. 1190-1237)

The difficulties of life…

The difficulties of life do not have to be unbearable. It is the way we look at them – through faith or unbelief – that makes them seem so. We must be convinced that our Father is full of love for us and that He only permits trials to come our way for our own good.
–Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)

Know, desire, love…

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as knowledge is commonly the measure of love, the deeper and more extensive our knowledge shall be, the greater will be our love: and if our love of God were great we should love Him equally in pains and pleasures.
–Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)

God knows best…

God knoweth best what is needful for us, and all that He does is for our good. If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him. The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light. When we see them in the hand of God, who dispenses them: when we know that it is our loving Father, who abases and distresses us: our sufferings will lose their bitterness, and become even matter of consolation.
–Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)

Always receive with…

Always receive with equal contentment from God’s hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.
–Saint Teresa Margaret (1747-1770)

Whatever troubles you…

Whatever troubles may be before you, accept them bravely, remembering Whom you are trying to follow. Do not be afraid. Love one another, bear with one another, and let charity guide you all your life. God will reward you as only He can.
–Saint Mary MacKillop (1842-1909)

Learn the path…

It is a lesson we all need – to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path.
–Saint Katharine Drexel (1858-1955)

Playing with temptation…

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)

Prayer begins by…

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)

The greatest love story…

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)

Mother of God…

She is honorable, affable, and arouses wonder in all, and all wish to see her. But who would not wish to see the Virgin and to converse with her who bore the true God? With us she is glorified as the Mother of God and the Virgin full of grace and virtue.
–Saint Ignatius of Antioch (First Century)

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