“We never give more honor to Jesus than when we honor his Mother, and we honor her simply and solely to honor him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek – Jesus, her Son.” » Saint Louis Marie de Montfort

“Love Our Lady and make her loved; always recite the Rosary and recite it as often as possible.” -St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"Host pleasing to My Father, know My daughter, that the entire Holy Trinity finds its special delight in you, because you live exclusively by the will of God. No sacrifice can compare with this" WORD OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA (Diary 955 )

"Let us become saints so that after having been together on earth we will be together forever in Heaven."   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“The first miracle worked by our Lord on earth was performed while He was still in His Mother’s womb. He stirred the unborn John and brought consciousness of His presence to Elizabeth, the cousin of His Mother. Thus, long before Cana, our Lord shows that it is through His Mother that He works His unseen wonders in the heart and through her that He is brought into the souls of men.
The joy of the second Joyful Mystery is that of the Old Testament meeting the New, and of the young maiden greeting the old woman, as Mary burst into the most revolutionary song that was ever sung, the Magnificat, foretelling the day when the mighty would be unseated from their thrones, and the poor would be exalted.
Yet at that moment, when Elizabeth is the first to call her the Mother of God, even before our Lord is born, Mary answers in her song that her greatness is due to Him, and that she was chosen because she was lowly. It may very well be that Mary was chosen to be the Mother of God after she had in her vow renounced the honor. Though greater than Elizabeth, she visits her in her hour of need. Only as we become little do we ever become great in the eyes of God.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary)

All grace flows from mercy, and the last hour abounds with mercy for us. Let no one doubt concerning the goodness of God; even if a person's sins were as dark as night, God's mercy is stronger than our misery. One thing alone is necessary: that the sinner set ajar the door of his heart, be it ever so little, to let in a ray of God's merciful grace, and then God will do the rest. But poor is the soul who has shut the door on God's mercy, even at the last hour. It was just such souls who plunged Jesus into deadly sorrow in the Garden of Olives; indeed, it was from His Most Merciful Heart that divine mercy flowed out. St. Faustina (Diary 1507 )

“No one will ever be the servant of the Son without serving the Mother.”  - Saint Ildephonsus

“Put yourself in the patient’s place and fancy how you would feel.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"We should make a great effort to become holy, and render great service to God and our neighbor." St. Pio of Pietrelcina (Letters III, p. 469)

"Perfect resignation. This is the desire of my heart. I am amazed at the love with which Jesus has ever conducted me to where I was always best off, and with which He has given me whatever was proper for me and best for my condition."  St. Peter Julian Eymard (1811 – 1868)

"That which I fear is not the Commune of Paris - no - that which I fear is liberal Catholicism. . . I have said so more than forty times, and I repeat it to you now, through the love that I bear you. The real scourge of France is Liberal Catholicism, which endeavors to unite two principles as repugnant to each other as fire and water."  Pope Bl. Pius IX (1792 - 1878)

“Some things in life are too beautiful to be forgotten. These things may be what men do in this world; they may even be their manner of passing from it. For example, almost every country has instituted a memorial day to recall the supreme sacrifice its patriots have made in defense of country and civilization. Because life was the most precious thing they could give, the living cannot forget their gift. They themselves could not ask for any such memorial, nor could they institute it, that was left to their survivors.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (This is the Mass)

"A righteous person is a victim and his life a continual sacrifice. For love of Jesus, I will fight against my own desires even in the most insignificant matters."  St. Bernadette Soubirous (1844 - 1879)

“With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary."  - Saint Ildephonsus

One day after having received Communion, I truly thought my soul was made one with the most sacred Body of the Lord. He appeared to me and by His presence caused me to make much progress.   St. Teresa of Avila 

"May Mary, who in the freedom of her 'Fiat' and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar." - St. John Paul II

"When you recite your "mystery" or "decade," you follow the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, which, by instructing you internally, leads you to more closely imitate Jesus, allowing you to pray with Mary, and most important, like Mary. It is a great contemplative prayer, very useful to people of today who are also busy with many things; it is the proper prayer for Mary and her devoted followers."
- St. John Paul II

“Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice.”  – St. Vincent de Paul

“The Holy Eucharist is the greatest treasure that the Church has on earth: It is Christ himself.” (Cardinal Francis Arinze)

"Have you ever seen a field of fully ripened grain? You will see that some ears are tall and vigorous; while others are bent to the ground. Try to take the tall one, the most vain you will see that it is empty; if instead you take the low ones, the most humble, these are laden with grain. From this you can deduce that vanity is empty."   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“Jesus Christ is God in the form of man. The eternal appears in time. The Eternal Word, by Whom all things in the world were made, is now rejected by the world He made: “There was no room in the inn.” The Bird Who built the nest of the universe is hatched therein: He Who made His mother, is born of His Mother. All the nations of the earth are made of one blood, and now the Son of God partakes and assumes that blood as the new Head of Humanity." Archbishop Fulton Sheen

“Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is always an impetus to a life guided by the spirit and values of the Gospel.”
- Saint John Paul II

"All grace flows from mercy, and the last hour abounds with mercy for us. Let no one doubt concerning the goodness of God; even if a person's sins were as dark as night, God's mercy is stronger than our misery. One thing alone is necessary: that the sinner set ajar the door of his heart, be it ever so little, to let in a ray of God's merciful grace, and then God will do the rest. But poor is the soul who has shut the door on God's mercy, even at the last hour. It was just such souls who plunged Jesus into deadly sorrow in the Garden of Olives; indeed, it was from His Most Merciful Heart that divine mercy flowed out."  St. Faustina (Diary 1507)

If you ‪love‬ until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

“I am asking Our Lord that we may die to ourselves in order to rise with him. May he be the joy of your heart, the end and soul of your actions, and your glory in heaven.”
– St. Vincent de Paul

“The Church draws her life from the Eucharist. This truth does not simply express a daily experience of faith, but recapitulates the heart of the mystery of the Church.” (Pope St. John Paul II)

“If we have a box in which we keep our money, we know the one thing we must always give attention to is the key; we never think that the key is the money, but we know that without the key we cannot get into our money. The Mother of the Babe is like that key; without her we cannot get to Our Lord because He came through her. She is not to be compared to Our Lord, for she is a creature and He is the Creator. But without her we could not understand how the Bridge was built between heaven and earth.
As she formed Jesus in her body, so she forms Jesus in our souls. In this one Woman, virginity and motherhood are united, as if God willed to show that both are necessary for the world. Those things which are separated in other creatures are united in her. The Mother is the protector of the Virgin and the Virgin is also the inspiration of Motherhood." Archbishop Fulton Sheen

“Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.”  - Saint John Paul II

“Zeal which goes outside the enclosure of love of the neighbor is no longer zeal, but the passion of antipathy.”  – St. Vincent de Paul

“The fullness of grace can transform the human heart and enable it to do something so great as to change the course of human history.” (Pope Francis, Homily, December 8, 2015)

"Science my son, for all its greatness is nevertheless a small thing; and less than nothing compared to the formidable mystery of the Divinity. You must take another road. Cleanse your heart of every earthly passion, humble yourself in the dust and pray! In this way you will certainly find God, who will give you peace and serenity in this life and eternal beatitude in the next."   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“In that [synod of the Angles] it is distinctly recognized that such a decree and judgment is very firmly commanded and diligently demonstrated, so that whoever had been washed without the invocation of the Trinity, he has not been perfected, unless he shall have been baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”  Pope St. Zachary, “Sacris Liminibus”, May 1, 748

 “Love does not stay idle.”  St. Catherine of Siena, Letter 182

"Secretary of My most profound mystery, know that yours is an exclusive intimacy with Me. Your task is to write down everything that I make known to you about My mercy, for the benefit of those who by reading these things will be comforted in their souls and will have the courage to approach Me. I therefore want you to devote all your free moments to writing."  WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA (Diary, 1693)

“In 397, or twelve years after his conversion, Augustine wrote his Confessions, the greatest spiritual autobiography ever written. It is the work of a teacher who explains, a philosopher who thinks, a theologian who instructs, a poet who achieves chaste beauty in the writing, and a mystic who pours out thanks for having found himself in peace. None of the Freuds or Jungs or Adlers of our generation has ever pierced the conscious and the unconscious mind with a rapier as keen as Augustine’s.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Life is Worth Living)

“Go to the Madonna. Love her! Always say the Rosary. Say it well. Say it as often as you can! Be souls of prayer. Never tire of praying, it is what is essential. Prayer shakes the Heart of God, it obtains necessary graces!” (St. Pio of Pietrelcina)

"And so now with all those who see the Blessed Sacrament, sanctified by Our Lord's words on the altar, through the hands of the priest, in the form of bread and wine: if they do not see and believe, as the spirit and the Divine nature demand that it is truly the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, they stand condemned. For it is the Most High who bears witness to it. He says, ‘This is My Body, and the Blood of the New Testament’ (Mk, 14, 22-24) and, ‘He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, has life everlasting.’”

- (Jn. 6, 55) - from the writings of St. Francis of Assisi on The Blessed Sacrament

"TO a lucid mind Imperialism and patriotism are opposite; patriotism means that boundaries are sacred, and Imperialism means that they are not."  ~G.K. Chesterton: “Daily News,” May 14, 1910.

"Do the penance of remembering, with sorrow, your offenses committed against God; the penance of being constantly good, the penance of fighting against your defects." St. Pio  of  Pietrelcina

"Behold, the treasures of grace that flow down upon souls, but not all souls know how to take advantage of My generosity."  St. Faustina  (Diary, 1687)

“Our Lord has no use for our knowledge or our good works if He does not possess our heart; and even this heart He does not wish if we do not give it to Him when He asks.”
– St. Vincent de Paul

“Urban, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to all the faithful, both princes and subjects, waiting in Flanders; greeting, apostolic grace, and blessing.Your brotherhood, we believe, has long since learned from many accounts that a barbaric fury has deplorably afflicted and laid waste the churches of God in the regions of the Orient. More than this, blasphemous to say, it has even grasped in intolerable servitude its churches and the Holy City of Christ, glorified by His passion and resurrection. Grieving with pious concern at this calamity, we visited the regions of Gaul and devoted ourselves largely to urging the princes of the land and their subjects to free the churches of the East. We solemnly enjoined upon them at the council of Auvergne (the accomplishment of) such an undertaking, as a preparation for the remission of all their sins. And we have constituted our most beloved son, Adhemar, Bishop of Puy, leader of this expedition and undertaking in our stead, so that those who, perchance, may wish to undertake this journey should comply With his commands, as if they were our own, and submit fully to his loosings or bindings, as far as shall seem to belong to such an office. If, moreover, there are any of your people whom God has inspired to this vow, let them know that he (Adhemar) will set out with the aid of God on the day of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary, and that they can then attach themselves to his following."   Blessed Pope Urban II, Letter of Instruction to the Crusaders, December 1095: (August. C. Krey, The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants, (Princeton: 1921), 42-43)

 “Sweetness of the Name of Mary During Life and at Death”: “Moreover, it is well known, and is daily experienced by the clients of Mary, that her powerful name gives the particular strength necessary to overcome temptations against purity. The same author in his commentary on the words of St. Luke, and the Virgin's name was Mary ("Et nomen Virginis Maria"--Luke i. 27), remarks that these two words, Mary and Virgin, are joined together by the Evangelist, to denote that the name of this most pure Virgin should always be coupled with the virtue of chastity" ("Nomini Mariae virginitas et sanctitas inseparabiliter sunt adjuncta"--Loco cit.). Hence St. Peter Chrysologus says, "that the name of Mary is an indication of chastity" ("Nomen hoc, indicium castitatis"--Serm. 146), meaning, that when we doubt as to whether we have consented to thoughts against this virtue, if we remember having invoked the name of Mary, we have a certain proof that we have not sinned.”  St. Alphonsus De Liguori,

“But the power of Mary over all the devils will especially shine forth in the latter times, when Satan will lay his snares against her heel: that is to say, her humble servants and her poor children, whom she will raise up to make war against him. They shall be little and poor in the world’s esteem, and abased before all like the heel, trodden underfoot and persecuted as the heel is by the other members of the body. But in return for this they shall be rich in the grace of God, which Mary shall distribute to them abundantly. They shall be great and exalted before God in sanctity, superior to all other creatures by their lively zeal, and so well sustained with God’s assistance that, with the humility of their heel, in union with Mary, they shall crush the head of the devil and cause Jesus Christ to triumph.”
- Saint Louis de Montfort

"I confess in the first place that for me it is a great misfortune to be unable to express and pour out this ever-active volcano which burns me up and which Jesus has placed in this very small heart of mine. It can all be summed up as follows - I am consumed by love for God and love for my neighbor." St. Pio  of Pietrelcina

"A cheerful heart is easily made perfect than a downcast one"  -St. Philip Neri

“As the spokes of a wheel are united because they all are united in the hub, so we can be united only in our center who is God.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Seven Pillars of Peace)

'I'm always happy, for I always manage in the midst of the tempest to preserve interior peace.' St. Therese of Lisieux (1873.-1897)

"Look into My Heart and see there the love and mercy which I have for humankind, and especially for sinners. Look, and enter into My Passion."  WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA  (Diary, 1663)

"Chosen souls are, in My hand, lights which I cast into the darkness of the world and with which I illumine it. As stars illumine the night, so chosen souls illumine the earth. And the more perfect a soul is, the stronger and the more far-reaching is the light shed by it. It can be hidden and unknown, even to those closest to it, and yet its holiness is reflected in souls even to the most distant extremities of the world."  WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA
(Diary, 1601)

“How good God is to those who detach themselves from the affections of the world to unite themselves to Him.”  – St. Vincent de Paul

 "The Guardian Angel came to wake me up in order to pray together our Lord at the beginning of the day" St. Pio of Pietrelcina (Ep. 1, p. 308). 

Why are you afraid to do My will? Will I not help you as I have done thus far?   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA (Diary 489 )

"Once we decide, in any matter, that passion takes precedence over Truth, and erotic impulse over honor, then how shall we prevent the stealing of anything, once it becomes “vital” to someone else?” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Three to Get Married)

“No man is delivered or preserved from the world-wide snares of Satan save through Mary; and God grants His graces to no one except through her alone.”   - Saint Germanus

"When you reflect upon what I tell you in the depths of your heart, you profit more than if you had read many books. Oh, if souls would only want to listen to My voice when I am speaking in the depths of their hearts, they would reach the peak of holiness in a short time."  WORD OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA (Diary 584)

"Do your best to conform always and in everything to the will of God, in all eventualities, and do not fear. This is the sure path to Heaven."  St Pio of Pietrelcina (Letters III, p. 452)

“Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” (Pope St. John Paul II)

"Why do souls avoid You, Jesus? — I don't understand that." (St Faustina diary 57).

"My child, make the resolution never to rely on people. Entrust yourself completely to My will saying," Not as I want, but according to Your will, O God, let it be done unto me." These words, spoken from the depths of one's heart, can raise a soul to the summit of sanctity in a short time. In such a soul I delight. Such a soul gives Me glory. Such a soul fills heaven with the fragrance of her virtue. But understand that the strength by which you bear sufferings comes from frequent Communions. So approach this fountain of mercy often, to draw with the vessel of trust whatever you need."  WORDS OF JESUS (Saint Faustina's Diary 1487)

O my God, how sweet it is to suffer for You, suffer in the most secret recesses of the heart, in the greatest hiddenness, to burn like a sacrifice noticed by no one, pure as crystal, with no consolation or compassion. My spirit burns in active love. I waste no time in dreaming. I take every moment singly as it comes, for this is within my power. The past does not belong to me; the future is not mine; with all my soul I try to make use of the present moment.
(Saint Faustina's Diary 351)

“New works, however holy, do not develop unless they have a promoter who follows them closely.”  – St. Vincent de Paul

"Invoke your Guardian Angel that he will illuminate you and will guide you. God has given him to you for this reason. Therefore use him!"  St. Pio  of Pietrelcina

“America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance-it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

If someone asks you why you take Communion so often, your answer is so you can better learn to love your God, so that you can cleanse yourself from all your imperfections, so you can be liberated from your miseries and take comfort in your sufferings.
Two types of people need to take Communion often: those who are perfect, because they should not get away from that which is the fount and source of their perfection; and the imperfect, so they can aspire to perfection; the strong so that they do not become weak, and the weak so they become strong; the sick so they can be healed and the healthy so they don’t become ill.
And regarding you, who are weak and ill, you need to frequently take Communion so you may receive Him who is your perfection, your strength and your doctor.
Those who don’t have much work need to frequently take Communion because they have the time, and idleness is dangerous for the spirit; those who are busy, for the necessity of an excellent meal that the agitated body requires.
Tell those who ask why you take Communion often that you take it frequently so that you may learn to do it well, because it is impossible to do something well if you don’t practice it with much frequency.
Take Communion often, the more times, the better.
Believe me, if the mountain hares become white from being in the snow so much, the same will happen to those who adore and eat the same beauty, loveliness, goodness and purity that is kept in This Divine Sacrament, so that someday you may become beauty, loveliness, goodness and purity.
If your soul longs to take Communion, remember to examine your conscience deeply: “For whenever you eat This Bread and drink This Cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until HE comes. So then, whoever eats the Bread or drinks the Cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the Body and Blood of the Lord. Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup.
(1 Corinthians 11:26-28).”
Saint Francis of Sales

“Happy, indeed sublimely happy, is the person to whom the Holy Spirit reveals the secret of Mary, thus imparting to him true knowledge of her. Happy the person to whom the Holy Spirit opens this enclosed garden for him to enter, and to whom the Holy Spirit gives access to this sealed fountain where he can draw water and drink deep draughts of the living waters of grace. That person will find only grace and no creature in the most lovable Virgin Mary. But he will find that the infinitely holy and exalted God is at the same time infinitely solicitous for him and understands his weaknesses. Since God is everywhere, he can be found everywhere, even in hell. But there is no place where God can be more present to his creature and more sympathetic to human weakness than in Mary. It was indeed for this very purpose that he came down from heaven. Everywhere else he is the Bread of the strong and the Bread of angels, but living in Mary he is the Bread of children.”
- Saint Louis Marie de Montfort, From The Secret of Mary

Do not be afraid of suffering, I am with you, WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA (DIARY  151)

"After Jesus Christ's ascension to Heaven, Mary longed continually with burning desire to be reunited with Him. To be without her divine Son was a very harsh exile. Those years of separation from Him were for her a most slow and painful martyrdom of love that consumed her slowly."   St. Pio  of Pietrelcina

“Your concerns do not depend on a house, but on the continuation of God’s blessing on the work.”  – St. Vincent de Paul

“When we leave the holy banquet, we are as happy as the Wise Men would have been, if they could have carried away the Infant Jesus.” (St. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney, Cure d’Ars)

"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. "

- St. Francis of Assisi

“Holy people never hurry; their vision of timelessness gives them time.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Prodigal World)

"I am not only the Queen of Heaven, but also the Mother of Mercy."  - Our Lady to Saint Faustina

"No prayers are so acceptable to God as those which we offer Him after Communion." St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787)

“The soul is above all corporeal beings and is above everything on the whole earth, in dignity and power; above the water, above the fire, above the air, above everything in which the said elements have any part. The soul is greater than the heavens of the Moon, and of Mercury and of Venus, of the Sun, of Mars, of Jupiter, of Saturn, and of all their signs, and it is greater than the seventy-two constellations. But the angels are greater than the soul, and these angels rule us and guide us, and enlighten us in all those things which we should do. It is the angels who have led you hither into this Campo to listen, and the whole Campo is full of angels, who make you pay heed to the words which I speak to the glory of God, and to which you pay such heed that if it were Saint Paul himself preaching to you, I believe you could not listen with more attention. And whence doth this arise? Surely not from me, but from the angels, because we have no power in ourselves to use any strength of ours except with the help of the angels who guide us. In ourselves we have only right intention, the will to act, and after this good will doth come to us we are impelled to the performance of it. For this reason saith David: Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. (Ps. 126:1)”  St. Bernadine of Siena, Sermon 

“One can never have too great a supply of patience and mild persuasion.”  – St. Vincent de Paul

“Talk to the Three Persons, to God the Father, to God the Son, to God the Holy Spirit. And so as to reach the Blessed Trinity, go through Mary.” (St. Josemaría Escrivá, The Forge, # 543)

"John tells us that all things came into being through the Son who is God the Word abiding with you, Father, from the beginning. Paul in his turn enumerates the things created in the Son, both visible and invisible, in heaven and on earth. And while he is specific about all that was created in and through Christ, of the Holy Spirit he considers it enough simply to saythat he is your Spirit.Therefore I concur with those chosen men in thinking that just as it is not expedient for me to venture beyond my mental limitation and predicate anything of your only-begotten Son except that, as those witnesses have assured us, he was born of you, so it is not fitting for me to go beyond the power of human thought and the teaching of those same witnesses by declaring anything regarding the Holy Spirit other than that he is your Spirit. Rather than waste time in a fruitless war of words, I would prefer to spend it in the firm profession of an unhesitating faith.
"I beg you therefore, Father, to preserve in me that pure and reverent faith and to grant that to my last breath I may testify to my conviction. May I always hold fast to what I publicly professed in the creed when I was baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. May I worship you, the Father of us all, and your Son together with you, and may I be counted worthy to receive your Holy Spirit who through your only Son proceeds from you. For me there is sufficient evidence for this faith in the words 'Father, all that I have is yours, and all that is yours is mine,' spoken by Jesus Christ my Lord who remains, in and from and with you, the God who is blessed for endless ages. Amen."  St. Hilary of Poitiers (315-367 AD)  (excerpt from ON THE TRINITY 12.55-57)

“Say not, then, religion is a private affair, any more than your birth is a private affair. You cannot be born alone; you cannot live alone; you cannot even die alone for your death is tied up with property or at least with burial. You cannot practice religion alone any more than you can love alone.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Preface to Religion)

"Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on its boundless grief and how precious is our soul."  - Saint Pio of Pietrelcina

“Since God is perfect in loving man, man must be perfect in loving his neighbor.” St. Vincent Palloti (1795 – 1850)

O my God, Trinity whom I adore, let me entirely forget myself that I may abide in you, still and peaceful as if my soul were already in eternity; let nothing disturb my peace nor separate me from you, O my unchanging God, but that each moment may take me further into the depths of your mystery ! Pacify my soul! Make it your heaven, your beloved home and place of your repose; let me never leave you there alone, but may I be ever attentive, ever alert in my faith, ever adoring and all given up to your creative action.
O my beloved Christ, crucified for love, would that I might be for you a spouse of your heart! I would anoint you with glory, I would love you - even unto death! Yet I sense my frailty and ask you to adorn me with yourself; identify my soul with all the movements of your soul, submerge me, overwhelm. me, substitute yourself in me that my life may become but a reflection of your life. Come into me as Adorer, Redeemer and Saviour.
O Eternal Word, Word of my God, would that I might spend my life listening to you, would that I might be fully receptive to learn all from you; in all darkness, all loneliness, all weakness, may I ever keep my eyes fixed on you and abide under your great light; O my Beloved Star, fascinate me so that I may never be able to leave your radiance.
O Consuming Fire, Spirit of Love, descend into my soul and make all in me as an incarnation of the Word, that I may be to him a super-added humanity wherein he renews his mystery; and you O Father, bestow yourself and bend down to your little creature, seeing in her only your beloved Son in whom you are well pleased.
O my `Three', my All, my Beatitude, infinite Solitude, Immensity in whom I lose myself, I give myself to you as a prey to be consumed; enclose yourself in me that I may be absorbed in you so as to contemplate in your light the abyss of your Splendour !   Bl.Elisabeth of the Trinity

“The torrents of grace inundate the humble. The proud remain always in poverty and misery, because My grace turns away from them and goes to humble souls.”  WORDS OF jESUS
(Saint Faustina's Diary 1602)

“There is no danger of exaggerating. We never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the Blessed Trinity.”  - Saint Josemaria Escriva

“If we followed the same rules for health that we do about religion, we would all be bedridden. It is not enough to talk about the necessity of health; we must do something practical about it – for example, eat, exercise and rest. So it is with religion. We must nourish ourselves with the truths of God, exercise our spiritual muscles in prayer, mortify ourselves of those things which are harmful to the soul, and be just as scrupulous in avoiding moral evil as we are in avoiding physical evil.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

“Although you do not have so many talents, Our Lord will increase them for you, if He chooses.”  – St. Vincent de Paul

"Tell souls not to place within their own hearts obstacles to My mercy, which so greatly wants to act within them. My mercy works in all those hearts which open their doors to it. Both the sinner and the righteous person have need of My mercy. Conversion, as well as perseverance, is a grace of My mercy."  WORD OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA  (Diary, 1577)

“I beg Our Lord that in all things He may be your all!”  – St. Vincent de Paul

"I am going forward through life amidst rainbows and storms, but with my head held high with pride, for I am a royal child. I feel that the blood of Jesus is circulating in my veins, and I have put my trust in the great mercy of the Lord."  St. Faustina (Diary 992)

“Don’t worry about me no matter what happens in this world. Nothing can happen to me that God doesn’t want. And all that He wants, no matter how bad it may appear to us, is really for the best.” (St. Thomas More, Martyr)

"Oh, the ineffable goodness of this our good Guardian Angel! How many times, alas!, I have made him cry for not having wanted to comply with his wishes, which were also God's. May this our most faithful friend free us from further disloyalty."   St. Pio of Pietrelcina (Letters vol. II, no. 41)

"Learn to praise the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Learn to have a special devotion to the Blessed Trinity:...I believe in, I hope in and I love the most Holy Trinity. This devotion is much needed as a supernatural exercise for the soul, expressed by the movement of the heart, although not always in words."   -St. Josemaria Escriva

“Those who have God as their protection have an inner tower that is never depressed by adversity nor inflated by pride in moments of success and prosperity.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Prodigal World)

“Let us run to her, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.”  - Saint Francis de Sales

"Now I understand well that what unites our soul most closely to God is self denial; that is, joining our will to the will of God. This is what makes the soul truly free, contributes to profound recollection of the spirit, and makes all life’s burdens light, and death sweet."
(Saint Faustina's Diary 462)

"If you did not tie my hands, I would send down many punishments upon the earth. My daughter, your look disarms my anger. Although your lips are silent, you call out to Me so mightily that all heaven is moved. I cannot escape from your requests, because you pursue Me, not from afar but from within your own heart."   WORD OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA (Diary 1722)

“If in Christ, Priesthood and victimhood are inseparable, should this not be so in ‘other-Christ’s’? Why have we considered ourselves only as offerers and not as offered, as preachers and not as sin-bearers, as social workers and not as redeemers? The priest is called to be a sin-bearer, as Christ was. This does not mean that he must wear hair shirts. Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts. Victimhood means that we feel the guilt and sin of the world as if it were our own, and by constant union with Christ, seek to reconcile all mankind to Him. Love means identification with others – not only with the sheepfold, but also those who are not in it. If sin were finished, the Priest need only be a Priest; but if Calvary is continuing then the glorified Christ can still ask: why do you persecute me?” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Those Mysterious Priests)

O terrible hour, at which one is obliged to see all one’s deeds in their nakedness and misery; not one of them is lost, they will all accompany us to God’s judgment. I can find no words or comparisons to express such terrible things. And although it seems to me that this soul is not damned, nevertheless its torments are in no way different from the torments of hell; there is only this difference: that they will someday come to an end.
(Saint Faustina's Diary 426)

"She is more Mother than Queen."  - Saint Therese of Lisieux

“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.” (St. Augustine of Hippo)

"Mary's holy soul, like a dove set free, left her saintly body and flew to the bosom of her Beloved."   St. Pio  of Pietrelcina

“If my own eternal salvation were conditioned upon saving the soul of one self-wise man who prided himself on his learning, or one hundred of the most morally corrupt men and women of the streets, I should choose the easier task of converting the hundred. Nothing is more difficult to conquer in all the world than intellectual pride. If battleships could be lined with it instead of with armor, no shell could ever pierce them.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Seven Capital Sins)

"We do not know the number of souls that is ours to save through our prayers and sacrifices; therefore, let us always pray for sinners."  (Saint Faustina's Diary 1783)

“If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.”  - Saint Gregory Nazianzen

“Take care of your poor life. Be content with consuming it little by little for Divine Love. It is not your own; it belongs to the Author of Life, for love of whom you must preserve it until He asks it of you.”  – St. Vincent de Paul

“Do not pray only in an emergency, the pleas of strangers is never as effective as the plea of friends. Do not think of God only in times of distress or danger. Heaven is not a firehouse, and God does not put out all the fires.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Wartime Prayer Book)

"You must remember that you have in Heaven, not only a Father but also a Mother…If our wretchedness saddens us. . .if the memory of our faults hinders us from presenting ourselves to God, our Father, let us then have recourse to Mary, our Mother. She is all sweetness, mercy, goodness and love for us because she is our Mother."

~ Saint Pio of Pietrelcina 

"He who knows well how to practice the exercise of the presence of God, and who is faithful in following the attraction of this divine virtue, will soon attain a very high degree of perfection." St. Vincent de Paul (1581.-1660.)

“Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be ‘tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine,’ seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one’s own ego and desires.” (Pope Benedict XVI, [Cardinal Ratzinger’s] Homily given April 18, 2005 ,at Votive Mass for the Election of New Pope)

"All those souls who will glorify My mercy and spread its worship, encouraging others to trust in My mercy, will not experience terror at the hour of death. My mercy will shield them in that final battle..."  WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSINA (Diary, 1540)

“No matter how sinful one may have been, if he has devotion to Mary, it is impossible that he be lost."   - Saint Hilary of Poitiers

“Love the Madonna and pray the Rosary, for her Rosary is the weapon against the evils of the world today. All graces given by God pass through the Blessed Mother.....
San Pio of Pietralcina.

“Your nightly duty is laden with heavy responsibility and it is only through rest, sensibly taken, that you will possess the presence of mind your duty demands.”  – St. Vincent de Paul

“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.” (Blessed John Henry Newman)

"What tongue could worthily describe Mary's triumphant entry into heaven? If the triumphs prepared here below arouse such admiration and great enthusiasm that they attract many people to contemplate them, what can be said of the triumph prepared by God Himself for his Mother?" St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"I desire to grant unimaginable graces,  to those souls who trust in My mercy. ... Sooner would heaven and earth turn into nothingness than would My mercy not embrace a trusting soul"  WORD OF JESUS TO St. Faustina (DIARY 687)

"You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory."
- Saint Bridget to our Lady

"In return for My blessings, I get ingratitude. In return for My love, I get forgetfulness and indifference. My Heart cannot bear this."  WORD OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA  (Diary 1537)

"If we approach with faith, we too will see Jesus... for the Eucharistic table takes the place of the crib. Here the Body of the Lord is present, wrapped not in swaddling clothes but in the rays of the Holy Spirit." -- St. John Chrysostom

“Always stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour.”
- Saint  Pio of Pietrelcina

“This does not mean that politics and religion move on identical planes any more than the body and the soul have the same function. Politics exist to lead free men to a prosperous and virtuous common life on this earth; religion exists to save men’s souls. But from both of them are born the two greatest loyalties known to man: the cross and the flag.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

"Where shalt thou rejoice? Upon the Cross, with the Spotless Lamb, seeking His honour and the salvation of souls, through continual, humble prayer. Now herein is all our perfection."  St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

”Jesus honored her before all ages, and will honor her for all ages. No one comes to Him, nor even near Him, no one is saved or sanctified, if he too will not honor her. This is the lot of Angels and of men.”  - Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe

“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”  St. Francis of Assisi.

“Mary Most Holy, since Pentecost you have kept watch with the Church as she prays for the Holy Spirit: remain with us at the centre of our extraordinary Upper Room. To you, whom we venerate as Our Lady of Divine Love, we entrust the fruits of the City Mission, so that through your intercession the Diocese of Rome may offer the world a convinced witness to Christ our Saviour." - St. John Paul II

"My God, how well you know my great need of your help. I trust in your infinite mercy, and I shall always do so, regardless of the spiritual state in which I might find myself. Always and everywhere I shall endeavor to recognize your will in all things, even though my eyes see only contradiction and uncertainty. I know that I cannot depend upon myself, and so I shall trust completely in you. “Nothing will separate me from the love of Christ”, for in you, O Lord, I have hoped; I will never be confounded.
- St. Teresa Margaret Redi of the Sacred Heart

Today I heard a voice in my soul: Oh, if sinners knew My mercy, they would not perish in such great numbers. Tell sinful souls not to be afraid to approach Me; speak to them of My great mercy.  (Saint Faustina's Diary 1396)

“...As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live.” (from Pope St. John Paul II, Homily in Perth, Australia, November 30, 1986)

"May the Mother of Jesus, and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing."   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"I have opened My Heart as a living fountain of mercy. Let all souls draw life from it. Let them approach this sea of mercy with great trust. Sinners will attain justification, and the just will be confirmed in good. Whoever places his trust in My mercy will be filled with My divine peace at the hour of death."  WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1520)

"Assuming a human nature from the Blessed Mother, the procession of Divine Life moved on the earth in the Person of Jesus Christ and finally wound its way up the hill of Calvary, and on Good Friday a soldier struck a lance into the side of that Sacred Humanity and blood and water poured forth: blood the price of our Redemption, and water the symbol of our regeneration. The Son sent by His Father now returns to the Father, and from the Eternal Godhead the procession of life moves on as the Father and the Son send their Holy Spirit full of Truth and Love to the Mystical Body on the day of Pentecost. Striking that Mystical Body as the brightness of the sun striking a prism splits up into the seven rays of the spectrum. The procession of Divine Life broke up into the seven sacraments to flood the members of that Body with Divine Life for the seven states from the cradle to the grave. The procession of Life moves on as Christ once more walks the earth in His Mystical Body, the Church." Archbishop Fulton Sheen

"Those who profess to be Christ's will be recognized by their actions. For what matters is not a momentary act of professing, but being persistently motivated by faith."   St. Ignatius of Antioch (c.35.- c. 107)

“O Holy Spirit, love of God, infuse Thy grace, and descend plentifully into my heart; enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling, and scatter there Thy cheerful beams…” (St. Augustine of Hippo)

"My son, you do not know the effects of obedience. Well, for a yes, for a single yes, be it done to me according to your word, to do God's will, Mary became the mother of the Most High, professing herself to be his handmaid and keeping her virginity which was so dear to God and herself. Thanks to this "yes" pronounced by Mary Most Holy, the world obtained salvation and humanity was redeemed. Let us always do God's will and always say yes to the Lord."  St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“The Descent of the Holy Ghost Upon the Apostles. Many have wished that Our Blessed Lord had remained on earth, that we might have heard His voice, seen His compassionate eyes, and brought our children to be blessed by His hands. But He said ‘I can say truly that it is better for you I should go away; He who is to befriend you will not come to you unless I do go, but if only I make my way there, I will send Him to you.’ If our Lord remained on earth, He would have been only a symbol to be copied – not a life to be lived. By returning to his heavenly Father, He could then send both from the Father and Himself the Holy Spirit that would make Him live on earth in His new Body, which is the Church. The human body is made up of millions of cells, and yet is one because vivified by one soul, presided over by a visible head, and governed by an invisible mind. So on Pentecost, the Apostles, who were like the cells of a body, became Christ’s Mystical Body, because vivified by His Holy Spirit, governed by one visible head, Peter, and presided over by one invisible head, Christ in heaven. Our glorious Church is not an organization, but an organism. As our Lord once thought, governed, and sanctified through a human body, which He took from the womb of His blessed Mother, so now he teaches, governs, and sanctifies through his Mystical Body, the Church, which He took from the womb of humanity overshadowed by His Holy Spirit. Christ was infallible when He talked through a human body; He is still infallible when he teaches through a mystical Body. Christ sanctified when he forgave sins with human lips; He sanctifies still when he forgives sins through the power of His priests. Christ governed through His human Body, and he governs still. ‘He that heareth you, heareth Me.’ As a drop of blood can live in the body, but the drop of blood cannot live apart from the body, so neither can any of us live the fullness of the Christ Life except in His Mystical Body, the Church.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Fifteen Mysteries)

"Science without true humility only inflates; but humility, joined to prayer and confidence in God and the necessary fund of knowledge, moves God, so to speak, to work wonders for the conversion of souls; the conversion of sinners is a work all divine."   St. Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)

“Know how to maintain silence in order to fulfill the demand of professional secrecy.”
– St. Vincent de Paul

“Throughout history there have been supernatural apparitions and signs which go to the heart of human events and which, to the surprise of believers and non-believers alike, play their part in the unfolding of history. These manifestations can never contradict the content of faith, and must therefore have their focus in the core of Christ’s proclamation: the Father’s love which leads men and women to conversion and bestows the grace required to abandon oneself to him with filial devotion. This too is the message of Fatima which, with its urgent call to conversion and penance, draws us to the heart of the Gospel.” (The Message of Fatima, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith)

Jesus, if You wish to leave me in uncertainty, even to the end of my life, may Your Holy Name be blessed. ST. FAUSTINA(DIARY 663)

"On a certain occasion, I saw a person about to commit a mortal sin. I asked the Lord to send me the greatest torments so that that soul could be saved. Then I suddenly felt a terrible pain of a crown of thorns on my head. It lasted for quite a long time, but that person remained in the Lord's grace. O my Jesus, how very easy it is to become holy; all that is needed is a bit of good will. If Jesus sees this little bit of good will in the soul, he hurries to give Himself to the soul, and nothing can stop Him, neither shortcomings nor falls absolutely nothing. Jesus is anxious to help that soul, and if it is faithful to this grace from God, it can very soon attain the highest holiness possible for a creature here on earth. God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed he gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit - that is the shortest route" 
(Saint Faustina's Diary 291)

“The revelation of Fatima is a reminder that we live in a moral universe, that evil is self-defeating, that good is self-preserving; that the basic trouble of the world are not in politics or economics but in our hearts and our souls, and that spiritual regeneration is the condition of social amelioration.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

"We must seek Christ where Christ is not, that is, in crosses and tribulations, in which truly He is not now, but we shall find Him in glory by this road."  St. Philip Neri (1515-1595)

“It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act contrary to their wishes.”  – St. Vincent de Paul

“Continue to view the affairs and doings of the neighbor in a spirit of charity; should his actions have a hundred sides, always look at the best.”  – St. Vincent de Paul

"Pentecost fires blaze again at every Confirmation as Christ sends His Spirit to make us soldiers of His Body on earth." Archbishop Fulton Sheen

"Knowledge of what is good for him has been given to every-one by God; but self-indulgence leads to negligence, and negligence to forgetfulness." St. Mark the Ascetic (5th c.)

“Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God’s creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.” (Pope Francis, July 17, 2013—Message to Catholics in Britain and Ireland for their annual Day of Life)

"Remember what took place in the heart of our heavenly Mother at the foot of the Cross. She was turned to stone before her crucified Son, due to the excessive suffering, but you cannot say she was abandoned. On the contrary she was never loved more than at that moment when she suffered and couldn't even cry."  St. Pio of Pietrelcina  (Letters III, pp. 197-198)

“From day to day, from moment to moment, she increased so much this twofold plenitude that she attained an immense and inconceivable degree of grace. So much so, that the Almighty made her the sole custodian of his treasures and the sole dispenser of his graces. She can now ennoble, exalt and enrich all she chooses. She can lead them along the narrow path to heaven and guide them through the narrow gate to life. She can give a royal throne, scepter and crown to whom she wishes. Jesus is always and everywhere the fruit and Son of Mary and Mary is everywhere the genuine tree that bears that Fruit of life, the true Mother who bears that Son.”  - Saint Louis Marie de Montfort

“The Son of God became man for our salvation but only in Mary and through Mary.”
- Saint Louis Marie de Montfort

"May Mary adorn your soul with flowers and the fragrance of ever new virtues and place 

her maternal hand on your head. Always stay close to this heavenly Mother; because she is 

the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of eternal splendor in the Kingdom of dawn." St  Pio of Pietrelcina

"I feel all your troubles as if they were my own."   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"Saint Paul, I understand now why you did not want to describe heaven, but only said that eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man what God has prepared for those who love Him"   (Saint Faustina's Diary 1604)

"The Apostles were the nucleus of the new ecclesia or body. Through them and their successors, Christ would still continue to teach, govern and sanctify. Up until the day of Pentecost, they were like chemicals in a laboratory. We know up to 100 percent the chemicals which enter into the constitution of a human body, but we cannot make one, because we cannot create the vivifying, unifying principle - the soul." Archbishop Fulton Sheen

“Let us trust that Our Lord will bring about what He wishes to be done among us.”
– St. Vincent de Paul

"Blessed the one who loves gentleness with spiritual understanding and is not tripped up by the wicked Serpent, for he has as his hope the good and compassionate Lord."  St. Ephrem of Syria (306 – 373)

Although temptations are strong, a whole wave of doubts beats against my soul, and discouragement stands by, ready to act. The Lord, however, strengthens my will, against which all attempts of the enemy are shattered as if against a rock. I see how many actual graces God grants me; these support me ceaselessly. I am very weak, and I attribute everything to the grace of God   St. Faustina Diary (1086 )

My daughter, try your best to make the Stations of the Cross in this hour, provided that your duties permit it; and if you are not able to make the Stations of the Cross, then at least step into the chapel for a moment and adore, in the Blessed Sacrament, My Heart, which is full of mercy; and should you be unable to step into the chapel, immerse yourself in prayer there where you happen to be, if only for a very brief instant. I claim veneration for My mercy from every creature, but above all from you, since it is to you that I have given the most profound understanding of this mystery WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA (Diary, 1572).