You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- St. Francis de Sales
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
- St. Augustine
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
- G.K. Chesterton
Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.
- St. Jerome
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
- St. Francis
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)