On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
- St. Teresia Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
- Archbishop Fulton Sheen
It is not the actual physical exertion that counts toward a man's progress, nor the nature of the task, but the spirit of faith with which it is undertaken.
- St. Francis Xavier
We will either accuse ourselves or excuse ourselves.
- St. John Vianney
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- St. Augustine
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
- Bl. Cardinal John Henry Newman
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.
- St. Augustine