Friendships

Eating and drinking don't make friendships - such friendship even robbers and murderers have. But if we are friends, if we truly care for one another, let's help one another spritually....Let's hinder those things that lead our friends away to hell.
-- St. John Chrysostom

GOOD EXAMPLE

Alas, what about you poor children! Being your spiritual father, I give you this advice: When you see your parents, who miss religious services, who work on Sunday, who eat meat on forbidden days, who do not go to the Sacraments anymore, who do not improve their minds on religious matters--do the very opposite before them, so that your good example may save them, and if you are wise and good enough to do this, you will have gained everything. That is what I most desire for you.
-- St. John Vianney

Fix the time, the length of your meditation

In the spiritual life he who does not advance goes backward. It happens as with a boat which always must go ahead. If it stands still the wind blows it back. Fix the time, the length of your meditation, and do not rise from your place until you have finished even at the cost of being crucified.
-- Padre Pio

We cannot grasp what He is

Concerning God, we cannot grasp what He is, but only what He is not, and how other beings stand in relation to Him.
-- St. Thomas Aquinas

Rejoice at Injuries and Persecutions

The Saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him. -- St. Teresa of Avila

Infection of Vices

Nothing can be more dangerous than evil companions. They communicate the infection of their vices to all who associate with them.
-- St. John Baptist de la Salle

Divine Love

The price of Divine Love is not to be appreciated; for it suffices to obtain the Kingdom of Heaven, and the love of Him who has loved us so much merits the highest degree of our love.
-- St. Francis of Assisi

What keeps us from loving God?

How many sins have entered into the soul through the eye as Holy Scripture indicates? [1 Jn. 2:16]. That is why they must fast by keeping them lowered and not permitting them to look upon frivolous and unlawful objects; the ears, by depriving them of listening to vain talk which serves only to fill the mind with worldly images; the tongue, in not speaking idle words and those which savor of the world or the things of the world. We ought also to cut off useless thoughts, as well as vain memories and superfluous appetites and desires of our will. In short, we ought to hold in check all those things which keep us from loving or tending to the Sovereign Good.
-- St. Francis de Sales

Sins of Others

Would we wish that our own hidden sins should be divulged? We ought, then, to be silent regarding those of others.
-- St. John Baptist de la Salle

The good Shepherd

The good Shepherd lays down his life, says the Lord, that is, his physical life, for His sheep; this he does because of his authority and love. Both in fact, are required: that they should be ruled by him, and that he should love them. The first without the second is not enough. Christ stands out for us as the example of this teaching: if Christ laid down his life for us, so we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
-- St. Thomas Aquinas

What do you possess?

What do you possess if you possess not God?
-- St. Augustine

Ladder to Heaven

Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.
-- St. Rose of Lima

The Lord is gracious and merciful

For the Lord is gracious and merciful and prefers the conversion of a sinner rather than his death. Patient and generous in his mercy, he does not give in to human impatience but is willing to wait a long time for our repentance.
-- St. Jerome

Conquering the tongue

Conquering the tongue is better than fasting on bread and water!!
-- St. John of the Cross

Bear your share of the hardship for the gospel .

I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control. So do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord, nor of me, a prisoner for his sake; but bear your share of the hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God.
-- St. Paul in his second letter to Timothy (2 Tim 1:6-8)

Spirit of compassion

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the Spirit of God.
-- St Vincent de Paul

God should be adored with an entirely chaste and pure heart.

O Catholic Church, true mother of Christians, you are right in teaching that God should be adored with an entirely chaste and pure heart. You unite all brothers and sisters to one another in a bond of religion that is stronger and closer than ties of blood.
-- St. Augustine

Ministry for Young Boys

Everyone knows the great merit and dignity attached to that holy ministry in which young boys, especially the poor, receive instruction for the purpose of attaining eternal life. This ministry is directed to the well-being of body and soul; at the same time, that it shapes behavior it also fosters devotion and Christian doctrine.
-- Saint Joseph Calasanz

Hands before Lips

We must speak to them with our hands before we speak to them with our lips.
-- St. Peter Claver

The Blood of the Lord

When they see the Blood of the Lord, demons flee while angels gather.
-- St. John Chrysostom

The highest degree of love and adoration

Our love for the Blessed Sacrament should be carried to the highest degree: the highest degree of love and adoration is the silence which prays and pours itself out in adoration before the grandeur of a hidden God.
-- St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

I should trust in You, my God.

If I saw the gates of Hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I should not despair, I should not lose hope of mercy, because I should trust in You, my God.
-- St. Gemma Galgani

Temptations as exercise and trial

The devil is only permitted to tempt thee as much as it is profitable for thy exercise and trial, and in order that thou, who did not know thyself, may find out what thou art.
-- St. Augustine