When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.
- St. Josemaria Escriva
From silly devotions and sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us!
- St. Teresa of Avila
Let the brothers ever avoid appearing gloomy, sad, and clouded, like the hypocrites; but let one ever be found joyous in the Lord, gay, amiable, gracious, as is meet.
- St. Francis
Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.
- St. Bernard
Oftentimes this fear (of dialogue) stems from the fact that the person doesn't feel capable of defending or justifying his own reasons, hence he doesn't want to listen to the other.
- Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi
Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
On the mercy of my redeemer I rely for salvation and on his merits; not on the works I have done in obedience to his precepts.
- Charles Carroll