There are not over a 100 people in the U.S. that hate the Catholic Church, there are millions however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church, which is, of course, quite a different thing.
- Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Let us begin in earnest to work out our salvation, for no one will do it for us, since even He Himself, Who made us without ourselves, will not save us without ourselves.
- St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
- Bl. Cardinal John Henry Newman
Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.
- St. Gregory Nazianzen
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
- St. Augustine
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- St. Augustine
Faith is a gift, but also, at the same time, an achievement.
- Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi