"Lovers cannot be satisfied if they fail to feel that they love as much as they are loved."   -St. John of the Cross

 

"A glance of love cast towards Jesus and the knowledge of our profound misery makes reparation for everything."  ~St. Therese of Lisieux

“God desires from you the least degree of purity of conscience more than all the works you can perform.”  St. John of the Cross (1542-1591)

"Oh, how painful it is to Me that souls so seldom unite themselves to Me in Holy Communion. I wait for souls, and they are indifferent toward Me. I love them tenderly and sincerely, and they distrust Me. I want to lavish My graces on them, and they do not want to accept them. They treat Me as a dead object, whereas My Heart is full of love and mercy".  WORDS OF JESUS TO ST . FAUSTINA. (Diary No. 1447)

“There seems to be an insane dread of using moral terms, or even condemning anything on moral grounds.  Psychological terms, the lingo of sociology, even medical terms such as ‘complexes’ are invoked with an air of scientific certitude, but bad or good, right or wrong seem to be scrupulously avoided. About the only time the world good is used is when the mother of a bad boy, a mother who completely neglected her husband and her children, is quoted in the press as saying of her son who has just committed murder, ‘He was a good boy.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (On Being Human)

“Doubting is the biggest insult to Divinity.”  St. Pio of Pietrelcina

Blessed Pope Urban II, Letter of Instruction to the Crusaders, December 1095: “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. (August. C. Krey, The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants, (Princeton: 1921), 42-43)