"It in loving you oh Jesus, that I attain to the Father. My poor heart keeps him forever. Oh Holy Trinity, you are the prisoner of my love."   -St. Therese of Lisieux

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. — Reading has made many saints.   -St. Josemaria Escriva

Today, the Lord has been teaching me, once again, how I am to approach the Sacrament of Penance, "My daughter, just as you prepare in My presence, so also you make your confession before Me. The person of the priest is, for Me, only a screen. Never analyse what sort of a priest it is that I am making use of, - open your soul in confession as you would to Me, and I will fill it with My light."   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1725)

“Our Lord wants us to serve Him with common sense, and the opposite is called indiscreet zeal.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“I am extremely pleased to hear that the Lord is always generous with his caresses towards your soul. I know you are suffering, but isn't this suffering a sure sign that God loves you?”    St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of him who gives and kindles joy in the heart of him who receives. All condemnation is from the devil. Never condemn each other. We condemn others only because we shun knowing ourselves. When we gaze at our own failings, we see such a swamp that nothing in another can equal it. That is why we turn away, and make much of the faults of others. Instead of condemning others, strive to reach inner peace. Keep silent, refrain from judgement. This will raise you above the deadly arrows of slander, insult and outrage and will shield your glowing hearts against all evil."   -St Seraphim of Sarov

The false superiority some give themselves is a kind of anesthesia to deaden the pain of being plain fools. Archbishop Fulton Sheen