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
You must ask God to give you power to fight against the sin of pride which is your greatest enemy - the root of all that is evil, and the failure of all that is good. For God resists the proud.
- St. Vincent de Paul