As Catholics, we must stop picking and choosing which parts of Catholic social teaching we will accept, and we must insist that our politicians stop doing this as well.
- Carl A. Anderson
Pray, hope, and don't worry
- St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcino
The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to this? Let the philosopher no longer disdain from listening to the common laborer; the wise, to the simple; the educated, to the illiterate; a child of a prince, to a peasant.
- St. Anthony of Padua
Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes.
- St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcino
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
- Bl. Cardinal John Henry Newman
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you!
- St. Augustine
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
- St. Augustine