"Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies" -St. Joan of Arc

"It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.“ St. John of the Cross (1542-1591)

"If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection." ~St. John of the Cross 

Pope [St.] Celestine I, in an epistle to John of Antioch, which is contained in Volume One of the Council of Ephesus, ch. 19, says: “If anyone who was either excommunicated or exiled by Bishop Nestorius, or any that followed him, from such a time as he began to preach such things, whether they be from the dignity of a bishop or clergy, it is manifest that he has endured and endures in our communion, nor do we judge him outside, because he could not remove anyone by a sentence, who himself had already shown that he must be removed.” And in a letter to the clergy of Constantinople: “The Authority of our See has sanctioned, that the bishop, cleric or Christian by simple profession who had been deposed or excommunicated by Nestorius or his followers, after the latter began to preach heresy, shall not be considered deposed or excommunicated. For he who had defected from the faith with such preaching, cannot depose or remove anyone whatsoever.” (As quoted by St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice: On the Roman Pontiff, trans. by Ryan Grant [Mediatrix Press, 2015], p. 308)

"All the trials and disturbances come from our not understanding ourselves."  -St. Teresa of Avila

"To fear losing yourself in the arms of divine Goodness, is stranger than the fear of an infant held tightly in its mother’s arms." St. Pio of Pietrelcina ( Letters III, p. 642 )

“We must not make the sentimental mistake of thinking Our Lord was just a poor man. He was a rich person who became a poor man. Rich he was in his divine nature because he was God, and Lord of heaven and earth. And yet despite that richness he became poor, principally because he became man. That is poverty of the worst kind, because it is limitation. He who was born poor in a stable could have been born rich in a palace by the Tiber. Roman legions might have guarded him at his birth, instead of an ox and an ass. No one would have expected that he who made the warmth of the sun would be warmed by the breath of oxen; nor that he who owned the earth would be homeless on the earth. It is no wonder then that the first to come to his crib were the rich and the poor Shepherds. Two things happened to them – the rich lost their avarice, for they gave their wealth to the poor; the poor lost their envy, for they learned that there is another wealth than that which the rich give away.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Liberty, Equality and Fraternity)