Celebrate the feast of Christmas every day, even every moment in the interior temple of your spirit, remaining like a baby in the bosom of the heavenly Father, where you will be reborn each moment in the Divine Word, Jesus Christ.
- St. Paul of the Cross
What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!
- St. Bernadette
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
- St Aelred of Rievaulx
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