There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
- St. Teresa of Avila
Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?
- Saint Gerard Majella
If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.
- St. John Chrysostom
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- St. Francis de Sales
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
- St. Augustine
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
- G.K. Chesterton