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
Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
- St. Patrick
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
- St. Augustine
The dress of the body should not discredit the good of the soul.
- St. Cyprian