St. John Chrysostom

Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.

St. Therese of Lisieux

I picture my soul as a patch of bare ground and I beg the Blessed Virgin to clear it from all rubbish (my imperfections) and then build there a vast pavilion fit for heaven and adorn it with her own jewels.

St. Augustine

He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Gaudium et Spes #16

In the depths of his conscience, man detects a law which he does not impose upon himself, but which holds him to obedience. Always summoning him to love good and avoid evil, the voice of conscience when necessary speaks to his heart: do this, shun that. For man has in his heart a law written by God; to obey it is the very dignity of man; according to it he will be judged. Conscience is the most secret core and sanctuary of a man. There he is alone with God, Whose voice echoes in his depths. In a wonderful manner conscience reveals that law which is fulfilled by love of God and neighbor.

Pope Leo XIII

At times, fervent prayer has been the divine weapon of Christians; but, amid the great calamities of the present time, we must more than rekindle in souls the love of prayer, and fly to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, our Saviour.

St. Augustine

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.