Be eager for more frequent gatherings for thanksgiving to God and His glory. For when we meet in this way, the forces of Satan are rendered powerless and his destructive power is cancelled in the concord of your faith.

-- St. Ignatius of Antioch

Oh how precious time is! Blessed are those who know how to make good use of it. Who can assure us that we will be alive tommorow? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience, to the voice of the royal prophet: "Today if you hear God's voice, harden not your heart." Let us not put off for one moment to another what we "should" do, because the next moment is not yet ours! 

-- St. Pio of Pietrelcina

The Church herself is a field, within which seeds and weeds, the good and the wicked, grow together, a place where there is room to grow, to be converted and above all to imitate God's patience. The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

-- St. Augustine

-- St. Alphonsus Liguori

True wisdom, then, consists in works, not in great talents, which the world admires; for the wise in the world's estimation ... are the foolish who set at naught the will of God and know not how to control their passions.

-- St. Bridget of Sweden

No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess .... Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion, without which the soul is worth nothing.

-- St. Catherine of Sienna

To desire to be poor but not be inconvenienced by poverty, is to desire the honor of poverty and the convenience of riches.

-- St. Francis de Sales

It is clear through unlearned men that the cross was persuasive; in fact, it persuaded the whole world.

-- St. John Chrysostom

You suffer and you want to bear it in silence. It doesn't matter if you complain; it's the natural reaction of our poor flesh; as long as your will wants, now and always, only what God wants.

-- St. Josémaria Escriva

Far, far from the Christian be the love of novelty! God hates the proud and obstinate mind.

-- St. Pius X

It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.

-- St. Teresa of Avila

The good thoughts which God gives you in prayer are relics. Gather them carefully together in order to translate them into acts, and you will gladden the heart of God.

-- St. Vincent de Paul

Never rise from the table without having given thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.

-- St. Pio of Pietrelcina

We do not have to talk very much in order to pray well. We know that God is there in His holy tabernacle; let us open our hearts to Him; let us rejoice in His Presence: This is the best prayer.

-- St. John Vianney

Who teaches the soul if not God?

-- Saint John of the Cross

If my conscience were burdened with all the sins it is possible to commit, I would still go and throw myself into our Lord's arms, my heart all broken up with contrition. I know what tenderness He has for any prodigal child of His that comes back to Him.

-- St. Therese of Lisieux

Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be truly moderate and do not punish or condemn anyone immoderately. Be gentle so that you may never oppose justice. Be honorable so that you may never voluntarily bring disgrace upon anyone. Be chaste so that you may avoid all the foulness of lust like the pangs of death.

-- St. Stephen of Hungry

You ask me a method of attaining perfection. I know of love - and only love. Love can do all things.

-- St Therese of Lisieux

There is no sin or wrong that gives a man a foretaste of hell in this life as anger and impatience.

-- St.Catherine of Sienna

Every virtue in your soul is a precious ornament which makes you dear to God and to man. But holy purity, the queen of virtues, the angelic virtue, is a jewel so precious that those who possess it become like the angels of God in Heaven, even though clothed in mortal flesh.

-- St. John Bosco

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

-- St. Angela Merici

To be perfect in our vocation is nothing else than to fulfill the duties which our state of life obliges us to perform, and to accomplish them well, and only for the honor and love of God.

-- St. Francis de Sales

It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

-- St. Ephraem the Syrian

A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head.

-- St. John Eudes

You tell me you do not have the time to give two or three hours to prayer; who asks you to do so? No one can be excused from ejaculations because it can be made while coming and going about one's business. Recommend yourself to God the first thing in the morning, protest that you do not wish to offend Him, and then go about your affairs, resolved, nevertheless, to raise your spirit to God, even amidst company.

-- St. Francis de Sales

All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in the sight of God, if we have not that universal charity for everyone - for the good, and for the bad, for the poor and for the rich, and for all those who do us harm as much as those who do us good.

-- St. John Vianney