Joy is a net of love by which we catch souls.
- St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
- Bl. Cardinal John Henry Newman
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.
- St. Augustine
When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.
- St. Josemaria Escriva
From silly devotions and sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us!
- St. Teresa of Avila
Let the brothers ever avoid appearing gloomy, sad, and clouded, like the hypocrites; but let one ever be found joyous in the Lord, gay, amiable, gracious, as is meet.
- St. Francis
Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.
- St. Bernard