“You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds…What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can.” -St. Thomas Moore
“All the good works in the world are not equal to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass because they are the works of men; but the Mass is the work of God. Martyrdom is nothing in comparison for it is but the sacrifice of man to God; but the Mass is the Sacrifice of God for man.”-St. John Vianney
“I need nothing but God and to lose myself in the Heart of God.”-St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
“Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can be of service to him; and blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.”-St. Francis of Assisi
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”-St. Thomas Aquinas
“You should strive in your prayer for a pure conscience, a will that is wholly with God and a mind truly set on Him.”-St. John of the Cross
“Be very faithful to God in your spiritual exercises, acting in such a way as to make yourself ever more pleasing in God’s eyes and loving in the eyes of the poor.”-St. Vincent de Paul
“May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.”-St. Teresa of Avila
“It is time now for us to rise from sleep.”-St. Benedict
“What a comfort is this way of love! You may stumble upon it, you may fail to correspond to grace given, but always LOVE KNOWS how to make the best of everything; Whatever offends Our Lord is burnt up in its fire and nothing is left but a humble, absorbing peace deep down in the heart.”-St. Therese of Lisieux
“One day lived in love in the service of the Lord can make up for an entire lifetime of sin.”- Fr. Luke Zimmer, ss.cc
