“When I hear the Church call men and women away from the lights and glamours of the world to the shades and shadows of the Cross, where saints are made, I hear once more Christ commending Mary because she had chosen the better part, and that, after all, only one thing in life is necessary, and that is the salvation of a soul.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

For then the soul is occupied completely in loving the One whom the intellect labored to know, and loves what it didn't understand, and rejoices in so great a joy.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila.  The Book of Her Life - chapter 22 : 9

“Peace is built on the foundation of justice.” (Pope St. John Paul II; Encyclical    -Centesimus annus, §5, May 1, 1991)

“It is well to take notice of the more ardent affection that agitate your heart so that you can do your best to regulate them by the standard of the holy and ever-adorable Will of God.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

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

“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

"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