Your patience will be crowned and your pains changed into eternal delights   – St. Vincent de Paul

God gives us what we can bear, and no more… If you believe that God wants only our good, you will stay perfectly happy. Be comforted in Christ crucified, and don’t be afraid.    - St. Catherine of Siena

 God leaves us to fall into arrogance and other passions so that we might acknowledge our infirmity and acknowledge where we are. In His goodness He leaves us, for our benefit, so that we might lay our trust and hope in Him, and not in ourselves. But beware of thinking that we fall into arrogance and other passions by God's will (for God's will is not in these); rather, God allows this to happen to us because of our negligence, and out of His love of mankind. He brings us from our evil deeds to humility, for our own salvation.    Sts. Barsanuphius and John the Prophet

 If you want to belong entirely to God you must be prepared to be despised and rejected by the world.  Blessed is he, my friends, who belongs to these, and who follows in the footsteps of the Lord with courage and carries his cross with patience.  It is only by doing so that we may obtain the happiness of reaching heaven.  Amen.   St. John Vianney

 This interior modification is required, as I have said, by proceeding gradually, not giving in to our own will and appetites, even in little things until the body is completely surrendered to the Spirit.  - St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Way of Perfection - chapter 12:1

 I am mercy itself for the contrite soul. A soul's greatest wretchedness does not enkindle Me with wrath; but rather, My Heart is moved towards it with great mercy.   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA    (Diary 1739)

Therefore, don't fear at all, but consider yourself extremely fortunate to have been worthy of participating in the sufferings of the God-Man. So there is no abandonment, but love, and great love which God is showing you. Your state is not one of punishment, but one of exquisite love. Therefore bless the Lord for this, and resign yourself to drinking the chalice of Gethsemane.  St. Pio of Pietrelcina

 “That little word “ought” implies that man is free.  Fire must be hot, ice must be cold, but a man ought to be good.  “Ought” is the beginning of morality for it distinguishes man as oral power from a physical power like a steam engine.”   Archbishop Fulton Sheen

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

 "I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome. “   - St. Anthony Mary Claret

“God is with the simple and humble; He assists them, blesses their work, and blesses their undertakings.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

 "We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable"   - St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090.-1153.)

 "If you want to belong entirely to God you must be prepared to be despised and rejected by the world.  Blessed is he, my friends, who belongs to these, and who follows in the footsteps of the Lord with courage and carries his cross with patience.  It is only by doing so that we may obtain the happiness of reaching heaven.  Amen."   St. John Vianney

 "No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ. His prayer brought benefit to the multitude that raged against him. How much more does it bring to those who turn to him in repentance.    St. Leo the Great

 It seems to me an perfection, my sisters, to be always complaining about light illnesses. If you can tolerate them, don’t complain about them. St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Way of Perfection - chapter 11:1

As long as you receive Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament every morning, you must consider yourself extremely fortunate.  St. Pio of Pietrelcina

My daughter, if I demand through you that people revere My mercy, you should be the first to distinguish yourself by this confidence in My mercy. I demand from you deeds of mercy, which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse or absolve yourself from it.  WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 742)

 “Let us labor together at God’s work with great meekness and humility; these are solid virtues.”   – St. Louise de Marillac

 “Picture an orchestra on stage with a celebrated conductor directing the beautiful symphony he himself composed.  Each member of the orchestra is free to follow the conductor and thus to produce harmony.  But each member is also free to disobey the conductor.  Suppose one of the musicians deliberately plays a false note and then induces a violinist alongside of him to do the same.  Having heard the discord, the conductor can do one of two things.  He could either strike his baton and order the measure replayed, or he could ignore the discord.  It would make no difference which he did, for the discord has already gone out into space at a certain temperature at the rate of about 1100 feet a second.  On and on it goes, affecting even the infinitesimally small radiations of the universe.  As the stone dropped in a pond causes a ripple which affects the most distant shore, so this discord affects even the stars.  As long as time endures, somewhere in God’s Universe there is disharmony, introduced by the free will of man.  Could the discord be stopped?  Not by man himself, for man could never reach it; time is irreversible, and man is localized in space.  It could, however, be stopped by the Eternal coming out of His agelessness into time, laying hold of the false note, arresting it in its flight.  But would it still be discord in God’s Hands?  No!  Not if God wrote a new symphony and made the false note its first note!  Then all would be harmony again.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Peace of Soul)