"To live in love is to sail forever, spreading seeds of joy and peace in hearts."    -St. Therese of Liseux

“Bitterness never serves any purpose than to embitter.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“Let the mouth fast from disgraceful and abusive words, because, what gain is there when, on the one hand we avoid eating chicken and fish and, on the other, we chew-up and consume our brothers?”    — St. John Chrysostom

“He who does not meditate is like a person who never looks in the mirror and therefore does not bother to be tidy when he goes out, since he can be dirty without knowing it.
The person who meditates and thinks of God, who is the mirror of his soul, tries to discover his defects, attempts to correct them, controls himself and straightens out his conscience.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you’ll be amazed at the results.”   - St. Josemaria Escriva

"From this humility stems love of neighbor, for they will esteem them and not judge them as they did before."   -St. John of the Cross

The prayer is genuine when it comes from a soul that loves to offer the sickness up and accept what is happening and be conformed to it.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 7: 12

"It is fitting that the Son of God should preserve Mary from sin since she was to be His mother. No other man could choose his mother. But if such a thing could be granted to anyone, who would wish for a slave if he could choose a queen? Who would wish for a servant if he could choose a noble lady? And if he could choose a friend of God, would he not wish for the Devil's greatest enemy?"   - St. Alphonsus Maria de Ligouri

“The supreme business of a foreign missionary society is to put itself out of business as soon as possible.  Since the aim of the missions is the establishment of the Church through the native clergy, foreign missionaries should strive to be self-liquidating.  In theory, a day ought to come when the whole world would have had Christ preached to it and Africa, India, Japan, and Mongolia should have their own hierarchy, their own clergy, and be as free from the need of missionary imports as is the United States today.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Missions and the World in Crisis)

"To give worthy praise to the Lord's mercy, we unite ourselves with Your Immaculate Mother, for then our hymn will be more pleasing to You, because she is chosen from among men and angels. Through her, as through a pure crystal, Your mercy was passed on to us. Through her, man became pleasing to God; Through her, streams of grace flowed down upon us."--St. Faustina~

Wherever people are suffering,  make it your task to serve them.    -Pope St. John Paul II

“Charity never enters a heart without bringing with it all the other virtues, empowering them and marshaling them as needed, just as a captain does his soldiers.”   -St Francis de Sales

don't worry about falling because the more you fall the stronger you become.    St. Therese

"To give worthy praise to the Lord's mercy, we unite ourselves with your immaculate mother, for then our hymn will be more pleasing to you, because she is chosen from among men and angels. Through her, as through a pure crystal, your mercy was passed on to us. Through her, man became pleasing to God; Through her, streams of grace flowed down upon us." - Saint Faustina

"Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made." St. Peter of Alcantara (1499-1562)

“To succeed in your intentions, entrust yourselves to the Blessed Virgin Mary always, but especially in moments of difficulty and darkness. ‘From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s will in things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ, her Son and the Son of God…Learn from her to be always faithful, to trust that God’s Word to you will be fulfilled, and that nothing is impossible with God.’” –Pope St. John Paul II

"Often tell Jesus that you love him very much, and that you wish to die for love of him.,"    -St. Gaspar del Bufalo

“If we cannot bear this [world's temporal] thirst, how shall we endure the fire of purgatory?”
—St. Lawrence Giustiniani.  Bishop and Confessor (Quoted in Fr. Alban Butler's “Lives of the Saints” Vol. IX, September 5, St. Lawrence Justinian, Bishop and Confessor, 1866)

"By means of this image I shall grant many graces to souls. It is to be a reminder of the demands of My mercy, because even the strongest faith is of no avail without works"   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 742)

“He who does not meditate is like a person who never looks in the mirror and therefore does not bother to be tidy when he goes out, since he can be dirty without knowing it. The person who meditates and thinks of God, who is the mirror of his soul, tries to discover his defects attempts to correct them, controls himself and straightens out his conscience.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"Jesus Christ, after having given us all he could give, that is to say, the merit of his toils, his sufferings, and bitter death; after having given us his adorable body and blood to be the food of our souls, willed also to give us the most precious thing he had left, which was his holy Mother."   - St. John Vianney

“hate comes from evil men who cannot stand the reproach of goodness because it makes demands upon them that they are unwilling to accept.  The more intense the evil, the greater the fear of goodness.  That is why Supreme Goodness is nailed to a cross.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

"And just as He appeared before the holy Apostles in true flesh, so now He has us see Him in the Sacred Bread. Looking at Him with the eyes of their flesh, they saw only His Flesh, but regarding Him with the eyes of the spirit, they believed that He was God. In like manner, as we see bread and wine with our bodily eyes, let us see and believe firmly that it is His Most Holy Body and Blood, True and Living.
For in this way our Lord is ever present among those who believe in him, according to what He said: "Behold, I am with you all days even to the consummation of the world." (Mt. 28, 20)    -St. Francis of Assisi

"When we go before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament we represent the one in the world who is in most need of God’s Mercy." We "Stand in behalf of the one in the world who does not know Christ and who is farthest away from God and we bring down upon their soul the Precious Blood of The Lamb."   - Pope St. John Paul II

St. Rita of Cascia: “Place all the weight of your trials and tribulations on the shoulders of Jesus Christ. He will carry them for you. Remember He once carried a heavy cross.” (Rev. Joseph Sicardo, O. S. A., “Life of Sister St. Rita of Cascia of the Order of St. Augustine. Advocate of the Impossible. Model of maidens, wives, mothers, widows and nuns.” Translated by the Rev. Dan J. Murphy, O. S. A. from the Spanish, Cum Permissu Superiorum N. J. MURPHY, O. S. A., Provincial; NIHIL OBSTAT J. F. GREEN, O. S. A, Censor Librorum; IMPRIMATUR GEORGE W. MUNDELEIN, D. D., Archbishop, Chicago, pub. 1916)

“Kindness is the key to hearts.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“Life is a Calvary; but we must climb it cheerfully. Crosses are the jewels of the Bridegroom and I am jealous of them. My sufferings are pleasing. I suffer only when I have nothing to suffer.”   St.  Pio of Pietrelcina

"From all My wounds, like from streams, mercy flows for souls, but the wound in My Heart is the fountain of unfathomable mercy. From this fountain spring all graces for souls. The flames of compassion burn Me. I desire greatly to pour them out upon souls. Speak to the whole world about My mercy."    WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary 1190)

“The Eucharist is so essential to our one-ness with Christ that as soon as Our Lord announced It in the Gospel, It began to be the test of the fidelity of His followers. First, He lost the masses, for it was too hard a saying and they no longer followed Him. Secondly, He lost some of His disciples: "They walked with Him no more." Third, it split His apostolic band, for Judas is here announced as the betrayer.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Treasure in Clay)

"Man is God's creation and property.  Give then to God your reason, your heart and your will.  Use them only for God and you will be saved; you will be for all eternity God's property, as children of His grace and charity.  Amen"   -St. John Vianney

“ The more she is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son.”    - St. Bernard.

"By means of this image, I shall grant many graces to souls. It is to be a reminder of the demands of My mercy, because even the strongest faith is of no avail without works"   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST . FAUSTINA.  (Diary No. 742)

"The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels."   - St. Bridget of Sweden

“May nothing distract me from You, neither noise nor diversions. O my Master, I would so love to live with You in silence. But what I love above all is to do Your will, and since You want me still to remain in the world, I submit with all my heart for love of You. I offer you the cell of my heart; may it be Your little Bethany. Come rest there; I love you so…I would like to console You, and offer myself to You as a victim. O my Master, for You, with You.   -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity.   

"So your strength is failing you? Why don't you tell your mother about it? … Mother! Call her with a loud voice. She is listening to you; she sees you in danger, perhaps, and she—your holy mother Mary—offers you, along with the grace of her son, the refuge of her arms, the tenderness of her embrace… and you will find yourself with added strength for the new battle."   - St. Josemaría Escrivá

“Let nature resent suffering because there is nothing more natural than this except sin. With divine help, your will, will always be superior to it, and divine love will always be in your soul, if you do not cease to pray.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies"    -St. Joan of Arc

"Though there be such things as deathbed conversions, nevertheless as the tree falls, there it lies. One man who led an evil life always boasted of the fact that he needed never worry about his soul when time would end, for he could save it with three words which he quoted in Latin: "Miserere mei Deus" [-- God have mercy, on me]. He was right about saying three words at the moment of his death, but they were not the words he expected to say, for his life had not been lived as to pronounce them from his heart. As his horse threw him over the cliff he said: "Capiat omnia biabolus," which means, "I'll be damned." Archbishop Fulton Sheen (On Being Human)

“Suspicions are often deceiving.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“Give me a man of prayer, and he will be capable of doing all things.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“Do you want your companions to respect you? Always think well of everyone, and be ready to help others. Do this and you will be happy.” St. John Bosco (1815-1888)

"My God,  what a joyous mystery is your presence within me, in that intimate sanctuary of my soul where I can always find you, even when I do not feel your presence. Of what importance is feeling? Perhaps you are all the closer when I feel you less.” St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“He loved us personally…centuries before we were born.”   - St. Peter Julian Eymard

“I cannot at all believe and therefore dispense you from meditation for the sole reason that you feel you gain nothing from it. The holy gift of prayer, my good daughter, is in the right hand of the Savior, and to the degree to which you are emptied of yourself, that is, emptied of love of body and your own will, and that you continually become more well-rooted in holy humility, the Lord will communicate this to your heart.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“Love does not stay idle” (St. Catherine of Siena, Letter T82)

"From all My wounds, like from streams, mercy flows for souls, but the wound in My Heart is the fountain of unfathomable mercy. From this fountain spring all graces for souls. The flames of compassion burn Me. I desire greatly to pour them out upon souls. Speak to the whole world about My mercy."    WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary 1190)

"Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life and love Him as you love Him and serve Him in the distressing guise of the poor."   - St. Teresa of Calcutta

"What makes a thing bad? A pencil is a good pencil because it does what it was made to do. It writes. Is it a good can opener? It certainly is not! Suppose I use the pencil as a can opener. what happens? First of all, I do not open the can. Second, I destroy the pencil. Now if I decide to do certain things with my body which I ought not do, I do not attain the purpose for which I was created. For example, becoming an alcoholic does not make me happy. I destroy myself just as I destroyed the pencil in using it to open a can. When I disobey God, I do not make myself very happy on the inside, and I certainly destroy any peace of soul that I ought to have." Archbishop Fulton Sheen

“When you say your Rosary, the angels rejoice, the Blessed Trinity delights in it, my Son finds joy in it too, and I myself am happier than you can possibly guess. After the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, there is nothing in the Church that I love as much as the Rosary.”   - Our Lady to Blessed Alan de la Roche

“Let us ask God for the grace for all of us to carry our crosses well so that we may be worthy children of that cross which begot us in His love, and by which we hope to praise Him and possess Him forever in the eternity of the ages.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“You threaten me with fire which burns for an hour, and after a little is extinguished, but are ignorant of the fire of the coming judgment and of eternal punishment, reserved for the ungodly. But why do you tarry? Bring forth what you will.” (St. Polycarp of Smyrna, Bishop and Martyr; The Martyrdom of Polycarp, Chapter XI; St. Polycarp responds to threats of the Roman proconsul)

“The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.”   ― St. Augustine of Hippo

"In Scripture not only teachings, but even each and every word pertains to faith. We believe no word in Scripture is in vain or not rightly placed, but in Councils the greater part of the acts does not pertain to faith. For disputations that are prefaced, or reasons which are added, or the things that are advanced to explain and illustrate are not on faith, rather only the bare decrees and not even all of these, but only those which are proposed as de fide. Sometimes Councils define something not as a decree but as probable, such as when the Council of Vienne decreed that it must be held as more probable that grace and the virtues are infused into infants at Baptism, as it is contained in Clem. uni. de Summa Trinitate et fide Catholica. But when a decree is proposed as de fide, it is easily discerned from the words of the Council because they usually say they explain the Catholic faith or they must be held as heretics who think the contrary; or what is most common, they say anathema and exclude them from the Church who think the contrary. But when they say none of these, the matter is not certain de fide.
Next, in the very decrees on faith, not the words but only the sense pertains to faith, for it is not heretical to say that in canons of Councils some word is superfluous or not rightly placed, unless perhaps the decree were formed from the word itself, as when in the Council of Nicaea they decreed the word homoousion must be received, and in Ephesus the word Theotokon."
St. Robert Bellarmine
De Conciliis, lib. 2, ch. 12

"No chain is stronger than its weakest link, and the weakest link of the chain of Popes was the first. But that weak link was held in the hands of Christ. That is why the papacy will never fail." Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Through the Year with Fulton Sheen)

St. Margaret de Cortona: “I neither seek nor wish for aught but only Thee, my Lord Jesus.” (Quoted Fr. Cuthbert, O.F.M. in his work “A Tuscan Penitent, The Life and Legend of St. Margaret of Cortona”, Nihil Obstat, Imprimatur, pub. 1907)

Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?  St Gerard Majella

My dear brethren, we read in holy Scripture that the Lord, while speaking to His people of the necessity to do good works in order to please Him and to become included in the number of saints, said to them: "The things that I ask are not above your powers; to do them it is not necessary for you to lift yourselves to the clouds nor to cross the seas. All that I command is, so to speak, in your hands, in your hearts, and all around...........Tell me, my children, is it so difficult to seek only to do the will of God in all of our actions, however small they may be? Yes, my children, with that prayer everything becomes meritorious for Heaven, and without that will, all is lost. Alas! How many good things, which would help us so well to gain Heaven, go unrewarded simply by not doing our ordinary duties with the right intention!" - St John Vianney.

“Be patient in persevering in this holy exercise of meditation and be content with taking small steps, until you have the legs to run, or better still, wings to fly. Be content with obedience which is never a little thing for a soul which has chosen God as its portion, and resign yourself for now, to being a little bee in a hive, that will soon become a big bee capable of making honey.  Always humble yourself lovingly before God and men, because God speaks to those who truly have a humble heart before Him, and He enriches them with his gifts.”    St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"Be apostles of Divine Mercy under the Maternal and loving guidance of Mary ".  -Pope St John Paul ll

“The Eucharist is the life of the people. The Eucharist gives them a center of life. All can come together without the barriers of race or language in order to celebrate the feast days of the Church. It gives them a law of life, that of charity, of which it is the source; thus it forges between them a common bond, a Christian kinship.” – St. Peter Julian Eymardeu

“All the economic and political revolutions do is to shift booty and loot from one party’s pocket to another.  For that reason, none of them is really revolutionary: they all leave greed in the heart of man.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Love One Another)

“In order to imitate Jesus, we must reflect each day on the life of the One we intend to take as our model. From our reflection is born esteem for his acts and from esteem springs the desire and consolation of imitation.”    St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“Just as the sun shines on all the trees and flowers as if each were the only one on earth, so does God care for all souls in a special manner.”   ― St. Thérèse de Lisieux

"I Myself will defend as My own glory, during their lifetime, and especially at the hour of their death, those souls who will venerate My fathomless mercy."     WORDS OF JESUS TO ST FAUSTINA. (Diary, 1225)

“Envy begins to appear here regarding the employment you expected. Charity, humility and patience will dispel this cloud, I hope.”   - St. Vincent de Paul

 Jesus said, "I desire that you know more profoundly the love that burns in My Heart for souls, and you will understand this when you meditate on My Passion."  WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA.  (Diary 186)

“A Feverish brow that never throbs in unison with a Head crowned with thorns, or an aching hand never borne in patience with a Hand on the cross, is sheer waste.  The world is worse for that pain when it might have been much the better.” Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen (About Crosses)

"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him is the greatest adventure; to find Him, the greatest human achievement." -St Augustine

"The Sacraments which Our Lord instituted would not have saved us without the Holy Spirit. Even the death of Our Lord would have been useless to us without Him. Therefore Our Lord said to His Apostles, “It is good for you that I should go away; for if I did not go, the Consoler would not come.” The descent of the Holy Spirit was required, to render fruitful that harvest of graces. It is like a grain of wheat – you cast it into the ground; yes, but it must have sun and rain to make it grow and come into ear. We should say every morning, “O God, send me Your Spirit to teach me what I am and what You are.” - St John Vianney.

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear. –St. Bernard

“If you put all the love of the mothers into one heart it still would not equal the love of the Heart of Mary for her children.”    -Saint Louis de Montfort

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.   - St. Teresa of Calcutta

“May you always be only of one heart and one mind.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

Because we have heard and because faith tells us so, we know we have souls. But we seldom consider the precious things that could be found in this soul, or who dwells within it, or its high value. Consequently, little effort is made to preserve its beauty. St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila - The Interior Castle - chapter1:1-2

“Moreover, ‘legitimate defence can be not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another’s life, the common good of the family or of the State’ (CCC 2265). Unfortunately it happens that the need to render the aggressor incapable of causing harm sometimes involves taking his life. In this case, the fatal outcome is attributable to the aggressor whose action brought it about, even though he may not be morally responsible because of a lack of the use of reason.” (Pope Saint John Paul II; Evangelium Vitae #55; March 25, 1995)

“The Christian soul never lets a day go by without meditating on the passion of Jesus Christ.”    St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“With all my heart I consecrated myself to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and asked her to watch over me. She seemed to look lovingly on her Little Flower and to smile at her again.”   - St. Thérèse of Lisieux

 Souls who spread the honor of My mercy I shield through their entire lives as a tender mother her infant, and at the hour of death I will not be a Judge for them, but the Merciful Savior. At that last hour, a soul has nothing with which to defend itself except My mercy. Happy is the soul that during its lifetime immersed itself in the Fountain of Mercy, because justice will have no hold on it.
Write this: Everything that exists is enclosed in the bowels of My mercy, more deeply than an infant in its mother's womb. How painfully distrust of My goodness wounds Me! Sins of distrust wound Me most painfully.   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA     (Diary,1075; 1076)

“The modern world, which denies personal guilt and admits only social crimes, which has no place for personal repentance but only public reforms, has divorced Christ from His Cross; the Bridegroom and Bride have been pulled apart. What God hath joined together, men have torn asunder. As a result, to the left is the Cross; to the right is Christ. Each has awaited new partners who will pick them up in a kind of second and adulterous union. Communism comes along and picks up the meaningless Cross; Western post-Christian civilization chooses the unscarred Christ.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Life of Christ)

Offer your temptations for the conversion of sinners. QWhen the devil sees you doing this, he is beside himself with rage and makes off, because then the temptation is turned against him.   -St. John Vianney

“If I do not become a Saint, I am doing nothing.”   -St Dominic Savio

"Remember that the Christian life is one of action; not of speech and daydreams. Let there be few words and many deeds, and let them be done well." St. Vincent Pallotti

It’s true we cannot live without faults but at least there should be some change so that they don’t take root. If they take root, they will be harder to eradicate and even many others could arise from them. St Teresa of Jesus of Avila.   Meditations in the Sing of Songs - chapter 2:8

“My dear Mother Mary, I think that I am more happy than you. I have you as a Mother and you haven’t the Blessed Virgin to love as I have.”   - Thérèse of Lisieux

"Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made."   – St. Peter of Alcantara

“Just as the bees sometimes fly great distances without hesitation to reach fields where they have a favourite flower bed and then, tired but satisfied and laden with pollen, return to the honeycomb to complete the fertile and silent work of transforming the nectar of flowers into nectar of life; so must you after having gathered the word of God, meditate on it with attention, examine its elements and search for the hidden meaning. It will then appear to you in all its splendour; it will acquire the power of doing away with your natural materialistic inclinations; it will have the virtue of transforming them into pure and sublime ascensions of the spirit, which will bring together ever more closely your heart with the Divine Heart of your Lord.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“You will practice charity better by preserving yourself to serve your neighbor for a long time than by wearing yourself out in a short time over the salvation of a few.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"My Divine Heart is so full of love for men ... that no longer able to contain within itself the flames of its burning charity, it must spread these flames by means of you, and it must manifest itself to men in order to enrich them with its precious treasures. I have chosen you to achieve this grand crusade of Love"    - Sacred Heart revelation to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

“It took a Lincoln’s blood to write a nation; it has taken a Kennedy’s blood to prepare for the equality of men in that same nation…On a brighter Easter day, we shall see that our national brotherhood was purchased by the blood of a victim.  Both were great, not by what was done by them, but what was done through them…these two Presidents of Sorrow stand forever near the Man of Sorrow saying: “I will stand here at Thy side; despise my nation not.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

The soul hungers for God,  and nothing but God can satiate it.  Therefore He came to dwell on earth
and assumed a Body in order that this Body might become the Food of our souls.  - St. John Vianney

"Silence is the beginning of purifying the soul."    -St. Basil the Great

'Ah! when I reflect that my soul is the temple of God, that God dwells in me, how my heart rejoices! All affliction appears to me sweet and light! What a fruitful source of meditation!'   --St. Paul of the Cross

"Every soul, and especially the soul of every religious, should reflect My mercy. My Heart overflows with compassion and mercy for all. The heart of My beloved must resemble Mine; from her heart must spring the fountain of My mercy for souls; otherwise I will not acknowledge her as Mine."   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA.  (Diary 1148)

Receive Communion often, very often...there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart for nothing. -St. Therese of Lisieux

"During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God-- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite." St. Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880 - 1906)

In what better way can we be occupied than to prepare rooms within our souls for our spouse.....Happy will be the Soul that makes this request and  whose lamp will not be out when the  Lord comes.     St Teresa of Jesus of Avila.  Meditation on the Song of Songs  -  chapter 2:5

“Reflect upon and keep before your mental gaze the great humility of the Mother of God, our Mother. The more she was filled with heavenly gifts, the more deeply she humbled herself.”    St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“People look upon you as servants of God and workers of the Gospel. I mean good servants, and that is why you are esteemed and assisted.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“Indifference means the denial of the distinction between the true and the false, right and wrong.  Confusing charity and tolerance, it gives an equal hearing, for example, to speech which advocates the freedom to murder and to speech which advocates the freedom to live.  Indifference is never a stable condition, but passes into polarization.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Missions and the World Crisis)

Let us walk together ,Lord, wherever you go I will go; what ever you suffer, I will suffer   St. Teresa of the Child Jesus of Avila - The Way of Perfection chapter 26 : 6

"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship." St. Francis de Sales (1567.-1622)

”There is no one, O Most Holy Mary, who can know God except through thee; no one who can be saved or redeemed but through thee, O Mother of God; no one who can be delivered from dangers but through thee, O Virgin Mother; no one who obtains mercy but through thee, O Filled-With-All-Grace!”   - St. Germanus

“The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.” (St. John of the Cross, d. 1591)

"Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you."   - Saint Clare of Assisi

“The Rosary is the most beautiful and richest of all prayers to the Mediatrix of all grace; it is the prayer that touches most the heart of the Mother of God. Say it each day.”   - Pope Saint Pius X

"The Heart of Jesus is an open heart. Spend your time there...It is not an ordinary school or a boarding school or a school for examinations, but it is a school of Jesus where you come to learn and to know the Heart of Jesus - where the teachers are His Mother and He. What have we to learn? To be meek and humble; if we are meek and humble, we will learn to pray. If we learn to pray we will belong to Jesus."   -St. Teresa of Calcutta~

"The future starts today, not tomorrow." - Pope St. John Paul II

“I am asking Our Lord to be Himself, your strength and your life, as He is to all who nourish themselves with his love.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“From a material point of view, we are worth so little. The content of a human body is equivalent to as much sugar as there is in two lumps, as much oil as there is in seven bars of soap, as much phosphorus as there is in 2200 matches, and as much magnesium as it takes to develop on photograph.  In all, the human body, chemically, is worth a little less than two dollars – O why should any mortal Spirit be proud? But Spiritually we are worth more than the universe.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Seven Capital Sins)

Let us walk together, Lord, Wherever You go, I will go; whatever you suffer, I will suffer.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila    The Way of Perfection - chapter 26 : 6

"Fight all error, but do it with good humor, patience, kindness, and love. Harshness will damage your own soul and spoil the best cause." St. John of Kanty (1390 - 1473)

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."   - Saint Thomas Aquinas

“Keep alive your determination to go in search of the lost sheep.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“Do you want your companions to respect you? Always think well of everyone, and be ready to help others. Do this and you will be happy.”   -Saint John Bosco

"Through the Chaplet you will obtain everything, if what you ask for is compatible with My will".
"Say unceasingly the Chaplet that I have taught you. Whoever will recite it will receive great mercy at the hour of death. Priests will recommend it to sinners as their last hope of salvation. Even if there were a sinner most hardened, if he were to recite this Chaplet only once, he would receive the grace of My infinite mercy".
"At the hour of their death, I defend every soul that will say this Chaplet as I do My own glory. When this Chaplet is said by the bedside of a dying person, God's anger is placated and His unfathomable mercy envelops the soul"   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA.  (Diary 687, 811 & 1731)

"Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved" ~St. John of the Cross ("Sayings of Light and Love" #115)

“Save souls by continuous prayer.”    St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"In order to be a devoted servant of the Father, I faithfully desire to be the servant of the mother."   - St. Ildephonsus

“Humanity is not like a fence of separate poles, strung together thanks to political and economic barbed wire or red tape; rather it is like a giant tree which has been growing for centuries.  Its leaves fall off now and then, but they are replaced by others, while the roots become deeper, and one mysterious energy or sap continues to flow, uniting the trunk and branches.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Footprints in a Darkened Forest)

"You should realize that God wants you to be glad and that, if you do all you can, you will be happy, very, very happy, although you will never for a moment be without the Cross." St. Josemaria Escriva (1902.-1975.)

It involves a gradual increase of self-control and an end to vain wandeing from the right path; it means conquering, which is a making use of one's senses for the sake of the inner life.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Way of Perfection - chapter 29 : 7

“If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.”   - Saint John Vianney

"Suffering passes; to have suffered willingly remains eternally."   -St. Therese of Lisieux

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.   - Pope St. John XXIII

“The prayers of the saints in Heaven and of just souls on earth are perfume which will never be wasted.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“O my soul, wilt thou be one of those who look with indifference on thy God torn with scourges? Reflect on his sufferings, but still more on the love with which thy sweet Lord submits to such excruciating torture for thy sake. In his scourging, Jesus certainly thought on thee. O God! had he borne but a single stripe for thy sake, thou shouldst burn with love for him, and say: A God has suffered to be struck for my sake. But for the atonement of thy sins he has, as Isaias foretold, permitted all his flesh to be mangled. ‘He was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins’ —Isa. liii. 5.”   —St. Alphonsus de Liguori

“Give me a man of prayer, and he will be capable of doing all things.”  – St. Vincent de Paul

“The human heart is not shaped like a valentine heart, perfect and regular in contour it is slightly irregular in shape as if a small piece of it were missing out of its side. The missing part may very well symbolize a piece that a spear tore out of the universal heart of humanity on the Cross, but it probably symbolizes something more. It may very well mean that when God created each human heart, he kept a small sample of it in heaven, and sent the rest of it into the world, where it would each day learn the lesson that it could never be really happy, that it could never be really wholly in love, that it could never be really whole-hearted until it rested with the Risen Christ in an eternal Easter.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Manifestations of Christ)

"There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us."   --St. John Paul II

Well, let us imagine that within us is an extremely rich palace ...There is no edifice as beautiful as is a soul pure and full of virtues. The greater the virtues the more resplendent the jewels.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila    The Way of Perfection - chapter 28 : 9

“Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.”   -Ven. Fulton J Sheen

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.   -St. Augustine of Hippo

"Ah! I understand now that charity consists in bearing with the faults of others, in not being surprised at their weakness, in being edified by the smallest acts of virtue we see them practice."   -St. Therese of Lisieux

“All things fail; but Thou, Lord of all, never failest!” (St. Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church, The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, Chapter XXV)

“Obedience is the burial place of the will and the resurrection of lowliness.” — St. John Climacus

"At least three times a day, deny yourself some legitimate pleasure…for the love of God. These little ‘deaths’ are so many rehearsals for the final death. Dying is a masterpiece, and to do it well, we must die daily.”   -Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (Wartime Prayer Book)

Today the Lord said to me, My daughter, My pleasure and delight, nothing will stop Me from granting you graces. Your misery does not hinder My mercy. My daughter, write that the greater the misery of a soul, the greater its right to My mercy; [urge] all souls to trust in the unfathomable abyss of My mercy, because I want to save them all. On the cross, the fountain of My mercy was opened wide by the lance for all souls-no one have I excluded!    WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1182)

“Prayer must be insistent since insistence denotes faith.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"The soul feels a strange delight in the breathing of the Holy Spirit... in which it is sovereignly glorified and taken with love." St. John of the Cross

“Let yourself be led by Our Lord; he will govern all things through you.”   – St. Vincent de Pau

“The tragedy of the world is that so many are unloved. Roses always look beautiful and smell sweet, and hence they are a prize to be possessed. Sweetbriar, however, has fragrant leaves, and they are never so fragrant as when it rains. The common people of the world are like these leaves; they have something fragrant about them, particularly when the days are dark and clouded and rain falls in their lives. Anyone can love a rose; but it takes a great heart to love a leaf.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

For although interiorly it takes time to become totally detached and mortified, exteriorly it must be do immediately.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Way of Perfection - chapter 13 : 7

“Make use of God’s gifts quite simply; if you think you have done anything good, attribute the glory to God.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter." - St. Therese

"He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant"   -St. Maria Goretti  (1890 - 1902)

“Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ Crucified and be silent.”    -St. John of the Cross

“To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.” (Pope St. John Paul II; WYD Toronto Welcoming Ceremony; July 25, 2002)

"The world today needs more saints. We have plenty of knowledge, power and education. But our education is not bringing us to the knowledge of the Truth, and power is preparing to destroy all power. It is not enough to have one or two men in the world who are saints but dozens. These men would not hide themselves in the desert or cloister or sanctuary, except for the early hours of the morning and the late hours of the night: but all the rest of the day they would be spending themselves and being spent on neighbor.”    -Venerable Fulton J. Sheen: Bishop Sheen Writes, August 7, 1965.

"Don't say: 'That person gets on my nerves.' Think: 'That person sanctifies me.'"    -St. Josemaria Escriva

Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary.~St. Bonaventure

“The best comfort is that which comes from prayer.”    St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"Fear nothing; you shall be my true daughter, and I will always be your good mother."   - Our Lady to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

“In virtue of man’s dual nature, he is part of a whole, a citizen in the State, and yet possessed of rights independent of the State; a soldier in an army and yet a captain of himself; bound to the State and yet the State is bound to him; immanent in the social order, and yet transcendent to it.  He is in the State but not of it – an entity belonging to two worlds; a political animal, and a theological creature.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Freedom Under God)

“As for you, you are not yet on the first step of that golden ladder. However, I have written to you in this vein that you may not be frightened when God will be pleased to require of you some degree of pure suffering without consolation; then, more than ever, be faithful to God, and do not abandon your ordinary exercises.”   --St. Paul of the Cross

"O what treasures Mary's birth brings for heaven and earth!  The evil spirit trembles with fury and despair, because he beholds in Mary she who is to crush his head."
From Sermon-The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
St. John Vianney

“To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.” (Pope Saint John Paul II; WYD Toronto Welcoming Ceremony; July 25, 2002)

'' Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy. ''   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA  (Diary 300)

"May God be pleased to give you His spirit and the grace to act in this same spirit and to bear your troubles in the way He bore his."   - St. Vincent de Paul

"No matter how sinful one may have been, if he has devotion to Mary, it is impossible that he be lost." St. Hilary of Poitiers (315. - 367.)

"“Finally, Our Lady of Lourdes has a message for everyone. Be men and women of freedom!" -Pope St. John Paul II

Get rid of this pestilence ; cut off the branches as best you can and if this is not enough pull up the roots.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila.  The Way of Perfection - chapter 7 : 11

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

“I never fail to pray for you because I cannot forget that you caused me great sacrifice, and that I gave birth to you in God, with extreme pain of the heart. I trust in your charity, hoping that you will not forget he who carries the cross of everybody.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

The Holy Hour. Is it difficult? Sometimes it seemed to be hard; it might mean having to forgo a social engagement, or rise an hour earlier, but on the whole it has never been a burden, only a joy. I do not mean to say that all the Holy Hours have been edifying, as for example, the one in the church of St. Roch in Paris. I entered the church about three o'clock in the afternoon, knowing that I had to catch a train for Lourdes two hours later. There are only about ten days a year in which I can sleep in the daytime; this was one. I knelt down and said a prayer of adoration, and then sat up to meditate and immediately went to sleep. I woke up exactly at the end of one hour. I said to the Good Lord: "Have I made a Holy Hour?" I thought his angel said: "Well, that's the way the Apostles made their first Holy Hour in the Garden, but don't do it again."  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Treasure in Clay)

"Man is God's creation and property.  Give then to God your reason, your heart and your will.  Use them only for God and you will be saved; you will be for all eternity God's property, as children of His grace and charity.  Amen"    -St. John Vianney

"I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the bread of God, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David; and for drink I desire His blood, which is love incorruptible."   -St. Ignatius of Antioch
"Epistle to the Romans" c. 105 A.D

"We must receive with respect whatever God presents to us, and then examine the situation with its circumstances in order to do what is most expedient."   - St. Vincent de Paul

“Don’t let the many snares of this infernal beast frighten you. Jesus, who is always with you, and who will fight with and for you, will never permit you to be tricked and overcome.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina.   (Letters III,p. 51).

"I am not capable of doing big things but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God" St. Dominic Savio (1842-1857)

"Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness."   --St. Richard of Chichester

Everything done with a pure intention is perfect love.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Way of Perfection - chapter 7 : 7

"The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessing."   - Blessed Alan de la Roche

“All the poetry of love is a cry and a moan, and the more pure it is, the more it pleads; the more elevated it is above the earth, the more it laments.  If a cry of joy interrupts this pleading, it is to celebrate the ravishing of an hour, and then to fall back into the immensity of desire.  That is why our nature is fortified by the immensity of desire.  That is why our nature is fortified by the imagination which puts before us the thoughts of the beautiful, so that when earthly beauty has faded from our eyes, we might revive the ideal more beautifully still in our imagination.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Hymn of the Conquered)

"May I let Jesus lead me more easily. May I be ready to accept everything, even mortification, powerlessness, living in darkness, being hidden like Jesus in a dark prison. If I let it, this prison or whatever this mortification may be will be the heart of Mary for me."   --St. Bernadette Soubirous~

“You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.” -St. Therese of Lisieux

The greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as the perfect model to imitate and as a powerful helper to assist them.” -Saint Louis Marie de Montfort #Catholic

“When Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.” – St. John Chrysostom

"The most efficacious way to have devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is through the Immaculate Heart of Mary."   --St. Margaret Mary

“Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“Be enthroned, Lady, for it is fitting that you should sit in an exalted place since you are a Queen and glorious above all kings. Queen of all of those who dwell on earth.” — St. Germanus of Constantinople

“Those who hate religion are seeking religion; those who wrongly condemn are still seeking justice; those who overthrow order are seeking a new order; even those who blaspheme are adoring their own gods – but still adoring.”   Venerable Fulton Sheen

“When you find yourself close to God in prayer, speak to Him if you can, and if you are unable to do so stay this way. Let yourself be seen, and do not disturb yourself further.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"My Heart overflows with great mercy for souls, and especially for poor sinners. If only they could understand that I am the best of Fathers to them and that it is for them that the Blood and Water flowed from My Heart as from a fount overflowing with mercy. For them I dwell in the tabernacle as King of Mercy. I desire to bestow My graces upon souls, but they do not want to accept them. You, at least, come to Me as often as possible and take these graces they do not want to accept. In this way you will console My Heart.   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA  (Diary 367)

“It seems unbelievable that a man should perish in whose favor Christ said to His Mother: ‘Behold thy son,’ provided that he has not turned a deaf ear to the words, which Christ addressed to him: ‘Behold thy Mother.’”   - St. Robert Bellarmine

“If Horace Greeley did not believe there was such a thing as territory beyond the Mississippi, he would never have said: ‘Go west, young man.’  If the modern man did not believe there was such a thing as hell, he would never give so many directives to those whom he did not like to go there.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Go To Heaven)

In fact, there is a holy simplicity that knows little about the affairs and style of the world but a lot about dealing with God.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila  The Way of Perfection - chapter 14 : 2

“We have to strive to raise our hearts to Him in our principal actions in order to consecrate them entirely to Him and do them in conformity to His will.”   - St. Vincent de Paul

"Go ahead! Courage! In the spiritual life one who does not go forward goes backward."   -Saint Pio of Pietrelcina

“What do you possess if you possess not God?”   St. Augustine (354.-430.)

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” (St. Teresa of Calcutta)

"Tell me all, My child,hide nothing from Me, because My loving Heart, the Heart of your Best Friend, is listening to you."   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA  (Diary)

I am definitively loved and whatever happens to me—I am awaited by this Love. And so my life is good.   -St. Bakhita

“This manner of staying in the presence of God simply to protest, with one's will, that we ourselves are his servants, is most holy and most excellent, most pure and extremely perfect.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

Be not afraid to be saints!    -Pope St. John Paul II

“If devotion to the Blessed Virgin is necessary for all men simply to work out their salvation, it is even more necessary for those who are called to a special perfection. I do not believe that anyone can acquire intimate union with our Lord and perfect fidelity to the Holy Spirit without a very close union with the most Blessed Virgin and an absolute dependence on her support.”   - St. Louis Marie de Montfort

“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

 In fact, there is holy simplicity that knows  little about the affairs and style of the world but a lot about dealing with God   St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila   the Way of Perfection – Chapter 14:2

“Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

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

St. Bernard, against human respect and showing perseverance and constancy: “I did not begin for your sake, neither for your sake shall I cease.” (Quoted by Fr. Francis J. Weninger, S.J., in his work “Lives of the Saints”, Vol. II, pg. 7., pub. 1876.)

"My mercy is greater than your sins and those of the entire world. ...For you I descended from heaven to earth; for you I allowed Myself to be nailed to the Cross; for you I let My Sacred Heart be pierced with a lance, thus opening wide the source of mercy for you. Come, then, with trust to draw graces from this fountain. I never reject a contrite heart." WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1485)

"So your strength is failing you? Why don't you tell your mother about it? … Mother! Call her with a loud voice. She is listening to you; she sees you in danger, perhaps, and she—your holy mother Mary—offers you, along with the grace of her son, the refuge of her arms, the tenderness of her embrace… and you will find yourself with added strength for the new battle."   -St Josemaria Escriva

“Be assiduous in your prayers and meditations. You have already told me that you have started. Oh, my God, what a great consolation this is for a father who loves you as much as his own soul! Continue to always make progress in the holy exercise of the love of God. Spin a little each day, whether it be by the dim light of the lamp and the dryness and desolation of the spirit, or by day in the joyful and dazzling light of the soul.”     St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“Do not be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her enough, and Jesus will be very happy, because the Blessed Virgin is His Mother.”    - St. Theresia Lisieux.

“The husband and wife should be similar to the hand and the eye. When the hand hurts, the eyes should be crying. And when the eyes cry, the hand should wipe away the tears.” — St. John Chrysostom

“The man who thinks only of himself says prayers of petition… he who thinks of loving and serving God says prayers of abandonment to God’s will, and that is the prayer of the saints.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

"Know that the experience of pain is something so noble and precious that the Divine Word, who enjoyed the abundant riches of paradise, yet, because He was not clothed with this ornament of sorrow, came down from Heaven to seek it upon Earth."   -St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi

The imitation of the virtue in which one sees another excel has a great tendency to spread. This is good advice; don't forget it.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila.  The Way of Perfection - chapter 7 : 7

“The creature most filled with the love of God Himself was the Immaculata. We know she never contracted the slightest stain of sin; she never departed in the least from God's will. United to the Holy Spirit as his spouse, she is one with God in an incomparably more perfect way than any other creature. In fact, we can say that the Holy Spirit does not act except through the Immaculata, his spouse. That is why she is the Mediatrix of all graces of the Holy Spirit. And why we can be holy by staying close to her throughout our life."   - St. Maximilian Kolbe

'If love is long-suffering and kind (cf. 1 Cor. 13:4), a man who is contentious and malicious clearly alienates himself from love. And he who is alienated from love is alienated from God, for God is love.' St. Maximos the Confessor (c. 580 - 662)

"Whatever you do, think of the Glory of God as your main goal."   - St. John Bosco

"The Rosary is a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight and to keep oneself from sin…If you desire peace in your hearts, in your homes, and in your country, assemble each evening to recite the Rosary. Let not even one day pass without saying it, no matter how burdened you may be with many cares and labors."    -Pope Pius XI

If we really understood the Mass, we would die of joy.    -Saint Jean Vianney

“In the evening, the Lord said to me, ‘My daughter, let nothing frighten or disconcert you. Remain deeply at peace. Everything is in My hands. I will give you to understand everything through Father Andrasz. Be like a child towards him.’” WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 219)

“Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God's heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should only speak to Him with your heart.”    St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“It does not suffice for me to love God if my neighbor does not love Him.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day be led astray. This is a statement that I would gladly sign with my blood."   - St. Louis Marie de Montfort

'When we feel our cross weighing upon us, let us have recourse to Mary, whom the Church calls the "Consoler of the Afflicted."'    --St. Alphonsus de Liguori

“We should never let a day pass without doing three small mortifications, for example, not taking that extra cigarette or that second lump of sugar.  Thus do we possess ourselves instead of being possessed by things.  When these mortifications are done in the name of Our Lord, they become a source of great merit as well.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen

One who is perfect will do much more than many who are not.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila.  The Way of Perfection - chapter 3 : 5

'Each man's knowledge is genuine to the extent that it is confirmed by gentleness, humility and love.' St. Mark the Ascetic (5th c.)

“The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself, without our even thinking of it.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“Christ humbled Himself: you have something, Christian, to latch on to. Christ became obedient. Why do you behave proudly? After running the course of these humiliations and laying death low, Christ ascended into heaven: let us follow Him there. Let us listen to the apostle telling us, ‘If you have risen with Christ, savor the things that are above is, seated at God’s right hand.’” — St. Augustine of Hippo

“After the love which we Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.” – Saint Alphonsus Ligouri

No one heals himself by wounding another.   -St. Ambrose

Be brave and try to detach your heart from worldly things.   - St. John Bosco

“There is but one way in which the unity of Christians may be fostered, and that is by furthering the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it; for far from that one true Church they have in the past fallen away. The one Church of Christ is visible to all, and will remain, according to the will of its Author, exactly the same as He instituted it.”   -Pope Pius XI

“Encourage souls to say the Chaplet which I have given you ... Whoever will recite it will receive great mercy at the hour of death ... When they say this chaplet in the presence of the dying, I will stand between my Father and the dying person, not as the Just Judge but as the Merciful Saviour ... Priests will recommend it to sinners as their last hope of salvation. Even if there were a sinner most hardened, if he were to recite this chaplet only once, he would receive grace from my infinite mercy. I desire to grant unimaginable graces to those souls who trust in My mercy ... Through the Chaplet you will obtain everything, if what you ask for is compatible with My will.   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary 687, 1541, 1731)

“Still, when there is question of defending the rights of individuals, the poor and badly off have a claim to especial consideration. The richer class have many ways of shielding themselves, and stand less in need of help from the State; whereas the mass of the poor have no resources of their own to fall back upon, and must chiefly depend upon the assistance of the State...” (read more - Pope Leo XIII, Rerum novarum, paragraphs 37,38, Encyclical – May 15, 1891)

"Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfection, and always rise up bravely after a fall."   -St. Francis de Sales

“Pray, hope and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"By the sign of the Holy Cross + deliver us from our enemies, o Our God!"   - St. Francis of Assisi

"It is Mary's practice to favor those who long to be protected by her."   - St. Teresa of Avila

"The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men; it is the book of the aged, whose eyes close upon the shadow of this world, and open on the substance of the next. The power of the rosary is beyond description."- Archbishop Fulton Sheen  (praying the Rosary)

I see that not making excuses for oneself is a habit characteristic of high perfection, and very meritorious, it gives great edification.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Way of Perfection - chapter 15 : 1

“We need a new apologetic, geared to the needs of today, which keeps in mind that our task is not to win arguments but to win souls, to engage not in ideological bickering but a kind of spiritual warfare, concerned not to vindicate or promote ourselves but to vindicate and promote the Gospel.”    Pope St. John Paul II, May 7, 2002

“Act justly: keep what is your own - namely, your misery and frailty, capable of leading you to the commission of every crime; and leave to God that which belongs to Him, that is, every good.”    St. Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)

“I praise God; for He is so good as to raise up in this century so many good and holy souls for the assistance of the poor common people.”   - St. Vincent de Paul

“Do not be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her enough. And Jesus will be very happy, because the Blessed Virgin is His Mother.”    -St. Therese of Lisieux

 The flames of mercy are burning me. I desire to pour them out upon human souls. Oh, what pain they cause Me when they do not want to accept them!
My daughter, do whatever is within your power to spread devotion to My mercy. I will make up for what you lack. Tell aching mankind to snuggle close to My merciful Heart, and I will fill it -with peace.   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1074)

“We have close to us an angelic spirit who never leaves us for an instant from the cradle to the grave, who guides and protects us like a friend or a brother.”   St.  Pio of Pietrelcina

“All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in the sight of God, if we have not that universal charity for everyone – for the good, and for the bad, for the poor and for the rich, and for all those who do us harm as much as those who do us good.”   -St. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney, Cure d’Ars

PROPHECIES OF OUR LADY OF GOOD SUCCESS

More than 400 years ago, Our Lady made these chilling prophecies to Mother Marianna concerning our times:

“Woe to the world should it lack monasteries and convents! Men do not comprehend their importance, for, if they understood, they would do all in their power to multiply them, because in them can be found the remedy for all physical and moral evils. ... No one on the face of the earth is aware whence comes the salvation of souls, the conversion of great sinners, the end of great scourges, the fertility of the land, the end of pestilence and wars, and the harmony between nations. All this is due to the prayers that rise up from monasteries and convents.

“Know, moreover, that Divine Justice releases terrible chastisements on entire nations, not only for the sins of the people, but for those of priests and religious persons. For the latter are called, by the perfection of their state, to be the salt of the earth, the masters of truth, and the deflectors of Divine Wrath. Straying from their divine mission, they degrade themselves in such a way that, before the eyes of God they quicken the rigor of the punishments....

“[S]hortly after the middle of the Twentieth Century … Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects. They will focus principally on the children in order to sustain this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times!

“The devil will make a great effort to destroy the Sacrament of Confession through persons in position of authority. The same thing will happen with the Sacrament of Holy Communion. Alas! How deeply I grieve to manifest to you the many enormous sacrileges -- both public as well as secret -- that will occur from profanation of the Holy Eucharist.

“During this time, …the Sacrament of Extreme Unction will be little esteemed. Many people will die without receiving it - either because of the negligence of their families or their false sentimentality that tries to protect the sick from seeing the gravity of their situations, or because they will rebel against the spirit of the Catholic Church, impelled by the malice of the devil. Thus many souls will be deprived of innumerable graces, consolations, and the strength they need to make that great passage from time to eternity....

“As for the Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with His Church, it will be attacked and profaned in the fullest sense of the word. Masonry, which will then be in power, will enact iniquitous laws with the objective of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy for everyone to live in sin, encouraging the procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the Church. The Christian spirit will rapidly decay, extinguishing the precious light of Faith until it reaches the point that there will be an almost total and general corruption of customs. The effects of secular education will increase, which will be one reason for the lack of priestly and religious vocations....

“The Sacred Sacrament of Holy Orders will be ridiculed, oppressed and despised. ... The demon will try to persecute the Ministers of the Lord in every possible way, and he will labor with cruel and subtle astuteness to deviate them from the spirit of their vocation, corrupting many of them. These corrupted priests, who will scandalize the Christian people, will incite the hatred of the bad Christians and the enemies of the Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church to fall upon all priests. This apparent triumph of Satan will bring enormous sufferings to the good Pastors of the Church....

“Moreover, in these unhappy times, there will be unbridled luxury which, acting thus to snare the rest into sin, will conquer innumerable frivolous souls who will be lost. Innocence will almost no longer be found in children, nor modesty in women. In this supreme moment of need of the Church, those who should speak will fall silent.”

(from “Our Lady of Good Success: Prophecies for Our Time” by Marian Therese Horvat)

"Only a few words from the Virgin Mary have come down to us in the Gospels. But these few words are like heavy grains of pure gold. When they melt in the ardor of loving meditation, they more than suffice to bathe our entire lives in a luminous golden glow."   - St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

“If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen

"Remove from me, O my God, everything that leads me away from You; give me everything that will bring me nearer to You. Enrapture me, so that I will live wholly and always for You”    St. Nicholas of Flue

“The rich ought to reach that degree of perfection of possessing the riches of which they are the masters, with out allowing them to possess them.”   St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491.-1556.)

Let each one consider how much humility she has, and she will see what progress has been made.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Way of Perfection - chapter 12: 6

“I beg Our Lord to be pleased to renew His Spirit in you so that all your activities be His and the resulting fruits be fruits of everlasting life.”– St. Vincent de Paul

Believe me...nobody can truly be happy in this world unless he is at peace with God.   - St. John Bosco

He calls us again and again, in order to justify us again and again.   - Blessed John Henry Newman

"Can we, of our own strength, avoid sin, and practice virtue? No, my children, we can do nothing without the grace of God: that is an article of faith; Jesus Christ Himself taught it to us. See, the Church thinks, and all the saints have thought with her, that grace is absolutely necessary to us, and that without it we can neither believe, nor hope, nor love, nor do penance for our sins. Saint Paul, whose piety was not counterfeit, assures us, on his part, that we cannot of ourselves even pronounce the name of Jesus in a manner that can gain merit for Heaven. As the earth can produce nothing unless it is fertilised by the sun, so we can do no good without the grace of the good God." - St John Vianney.

"I understood that love comprises all vocations – that love is everything, and because it is eternal, embraces all times and places." -St. Therese of Lisieux

"When people love and recite the Rosary they find it makes them better."   - St. Anthony Mary Claret

"Remember that the Christian life is one of action; not of speech and daydreams. Let there be few words and many deeds, and let them be done well."   St. Vincent Pallotti

“Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. For joy comes from another source. It is spiritual. Money, comfort, hygiene and material security are often not lacking; and yet boredom, depression and sadness unhappily remain the lot of many.” (Pope St. Paul VI, Gaudete in Domino, Apostolic Exhortation, 1975)

“The conflict with Hell cannot be maintained by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan.”   St. Maximilian Kolbe.

“Prayer is the effusion of our heart into God's…when it is well done, it moves the Divine Heart
and makes Him always more inclined to grant our requests. Let us pour out our whole soul to God in prayer. He is captivated by our prayers and comes to our aid.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

. During one of the adorations, Jesus promised me that: With souls that have recourse to My mercy and with those that glorify and proclaim My great mercy to others, I will deal according to My infinite mercy at the hour of their death.

My Heart is sorrowful, Jesus said, because even chosen souls do not understand the greatness of My mercy. Their relationship [with Me] is, in certain ways, imbued with mistrust. Oh, how much that wounds My Heart! Remember My Passion, and if you do not believe My words, at least believe My wounds.   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 379)

“One must always distinguish between an abnormal manifestation of guilt and guilt itself.  For example, a person given to excessive washing of hands is manifesting an abnormal sense of guilt, but this does not alter the fact that behind this particular complex there may be a very real reason for a sense of guilt.  A denial of guilt is a denial of responsibility, and a denial of responsibility is a denial of freedom.  Illustrating the attitude of those who insist on having rights but no duties, freedom but no responsibility, praise but no blame, is a cartoon in which a psychoanalyst is pictured telling a mother: Yes, your boy is stubborn, cruel, perverted, a kleptomaniac, has criminal tendencies – but bad, no.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Life is Worth Living)

Clearly, a humble person will reflect on his life and consider how he has served the Lord in comparison with how the Lord ought to be served.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila.  The Way of Perfection - chapter 12: 6

“While you are making progress in the school of Our Lord, He will give you greater knowledge than what can be found in books.”    – St. Vincent de Paul

“Prayer is the effusion of our heart into God's…
when it is well done, it moves the Divine Heart
and makes Him always more inclined to grant our requests. Let us pour out our whole soul to God in prayer. He is captivated by our prayers and comes to our aid.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God-- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite."    -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.   -St. Therese of Lisieux

"You see, I can give you everything in one moment. I am not constrained by any law." WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA.  (Diary,1153)

“It is the will of God that we shall receive everything through Mary.”   St. Bernard of Clairvaux

"As in the natural life a child must have a father and a mother, so in the supernatural life of grace a true child of the Church must have God for his Father and Mary for his mother. If he prides himself on having God for his Father but does not give to Mary the tender affection of a true child, he is an impostor and his father is the devil."   - St. Louis Marie de Montfort

“Because God is full of life, He enjoys the thrill that comes with sameness, and so I can imagine Almighty God saying every morning to the sun, ‘do it again’, and every evening saying to the moon and stars, ‘do it again,’ and every springtime saying to the daisies, ‘do it again’, and every winter saying to the snowflakes chiseled by some great heavenly smith, ‘do it again’, and every time a child is born in the world, to the eternal confusion of birth control, pleading for a divine curtain call, and asking for a Divine Encore in order that the heart of a God might once more ring out in the heart of a babe.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Moods and Truths)

“In those times the atmosphere will be saturated with the spirit of impurity which, like a filthy sea, will engulf the streets and public places with incredible license.… Innocence will scarcely be found in children, or modesty in women." - Prophecies of Our Lady of Good Success (circa 500 years ago).

“'Obedience will enable you to advance untiringly, and to gain more readily the road to Heaven; inasmuch as you will be journeying, in a manner, under the guidance of another, and not by your own will and judgment.”   St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491.-1556.)

Believe me in one thing: if there is any vain  esteem of honor or wealth... you will never grow very much or come  enjoy the true fruit of prayer.   St. Theresa of  Avila.  The Way of Perfection 12:5

“Our Lord will perhaps draw more glory from your submission than from all the good you could do.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship."   - Saint Francis de Sales

“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.” (Pope St. John Paul II, Homily, Washington, D.C., 7 October 1979)

“I must not let the first month of the year pass without sending your soul greetings from mine, and to assure you more and more of the affection my heart nurtures for yours, never ceasing to desire for both, all sorts of blessings and spiritual happiness. But I warmly recommend that poor heart of yours, to you. Take care to render it daily, more and more pleasing to our most sweet Saviour, and see to it that the present year is more fertile in good works than the last, as, with the same speed with which the years pass by and eternity becomes closer, we must redouble our courage and raise our spirit to God, serving Him with greater diligence in everything that our vocation and Christian profession require of us.”    St. Pio of Pietrelcina  (Letters III,p. 491).

“The heavenly bread is Christ, Who came down from heaven and gave life to the world. This is the nourishment of the angels. The man who has found love eats and drinks Christ every day and hour and hereby is made immortal. ‘He that eateth of this bread,’ He says, ‘which I will give him, shall not see death unto eternity.’ Blessed is he who eats the bread of love, which is Jesus! He who eats of love eats Christ, the God over all, as John bears witness, saying, ‘God is love.’” — St. Isaac of Nineveh

"The Lord said to me, You are the delight of My Heart; from today on, every one of your acts, even the very smallest, will be a delight to My eyes, whatever you do."   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 137)

"The words of Jesus Christ, our king and Lord, cannot fail."   -St. Teresa of Avila

"Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle."   - St. Josemaría Escrivá

“The enthusiasm for false gods cannot be drowned by an indifference to the true God.  No secularized, non-religious theory of political freedom is strong enough to overcome them.  A people who lack the strength of an ultimate conviction, cannot overcome their faith or their false absolute.  The effective answer to a false religion is not indifference to all religion, but the practice of a true religion.  If they have politics into a false religion, we shall have to see that religion has something to say about politics.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Philosophies at War)