We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
- Saint Francis de Sales
For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
- St. Bernard
I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
- Dorothy Day
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
- G.K. Chesterton
I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right.
- G.K. Chesterton
Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.
- St. Francis de Sales
Get the children for first communion and say to them, "Somebody votes for the killing of unborn babies, and says, 'I voted for that, I will vote for that every time', and these babies are killed, not one or two, but in millions, and that person says 'I am a practicing Catholic', should that person receive communion next Sunday?" The children for first communion will answer that at the drop of a hat. You don't need a cardinal to answer that.
- Cardinal Francis Arinze