He who walking on the sea could calm the bitter waves, who gives life to the dying seeds of the earth; he who was able to loose the mortal chains of death, and after three days' darkness could bring again to the upper world the brother for his sister Martha: he, I believe, will make Damasus rise again from the dust.
- St. Damasus (from an epitaph written for himself)
When shall it be that we shall taste the sweetness of the Divine Will in all that happens to us, considering in everything only His good pleasure, by whom it is certain that adversity is sent with as much love as prosperity, and as much for our good? When shall we cast ourselves undeservedly into the arms of our most loving Father in Heaven, leaving to Him the care of ourselves and of our affairs, and reserving only the desire of pleasing Him, and of serving Him well in all that we can?
- St. Jane Frances de Chantal
At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
- St. John of the Cross
If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured.
- St. Colette
It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.
- St. Edmund
Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to Him and if they were to allow His grace to mold them accordingly.
- St. Ignatius Loyola
The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.
- Pope St. Gregory the Great