“As sailors are guided by star to the port, so are Christians guided to Heaven by Mary.”    St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (1506-1552)

“Some Saints are privileged to extend to us their patronage with particular efficacy in certain needs, but not in others; but our holy patron St. Joseph has the power to assist us in all cases, in every necessity, in every undertaking.”    - St. Thomas Aquinas

"In contemplation, God teaches the soul very quietly and secretly without its knowing how, without sounds of words, and without the help of any bodily or spiritual faculty, in silence and quietude, in darkness to all sensory and natural things."   -St. John of the  Cross

Blessed are they who truly love Him and always keep Him at their side !   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila    The Book of Her Life - chapter 22 : 7

“O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all your necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.”   --St. Basil the Great

"God wills that all his gifts should come to us through Mary."   --St. Bernard

“Joseph renounced paternity of the flesh, and yet found it in the spirit, as the foster father of Our Lord.  Mary renounced maternity, and yet found it in her virginity, as the closed garden through which no one should pass except the Light of the World Who would break nothing in His coming – any more than light breaks the window by coming into the room.” Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The World’s First Love)