Part of Purgatory must be the realization of how little it would have to take to make a vice into a virtue.
- Flannery O'Connor
Pray with great confidence, with confidence based upon the goodness and infinite generosity of God and upon the promises of Jesus Christ. God is a spring of living water which flows unceasingly into the hearts of those who pray.
- St. Louis de Montfort
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
- St. Francis de Sales
Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
- St. Augustine
What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.
- St. Francis
Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.
- St. Robert Bellarmine
I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.
- St. Augustine