To love God is something greater than to know Him.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the bread of God, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ ... and for drink I desire his blood, which is love incorruptible
- St. Ignatius of Antioch
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
- St. Bernard of Clairvaux
He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.
- Pope St. Clement I
This, in short, is the difference between us and others who know not God, that in misfortune they complain and murmur, while the adversity does not call us away from the truth of virtue and faith, but strengthens us by its suffering.
- St. Cyprian
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.
- St. Rose of Lima
Grounded in the power of the resurrection, there is nothing in this world, and nothing in Hell, that can ultimately defeat God's one, true, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
- Bishop Daniel R. Jenky