"Love now becomes concern and care for the other. No longer is it self-seeking, a sinking in the intoxication of happiness; instead it seeks the good of the beloved: it becomes renunciation, and it is readily, and even willing for sacrifice." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, God is Love: Deus Caritas Est, Ignatius Press, 2006. [...]
"This sacrament must be offered to Me in three forms. What? Bread and wine and water, for the honor of the Trinity. If any of these three is lacking, the Trinity is not truly worshipped, for the Father is understood by the wine, the Son by the bread, and the Holy Spirit by the water. [...]
"Talkativeness is the throne of vainglory on which it loves to preen itself and show off. Talkativeness is a sign of ignorance, a doorway to slander, a leader of jesting, a servant of lies, the ruin of compunction, a summoner of despondency, a messenger of sleep, a dissipation of recollection, the end of vigilance, the [...]
"Blessed are you, O loving souls, who can find no sweeter repose in the world than in remaining near to your Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament! And blessed should I be, my Lord, did I from this time forward find no greater delight than in remaining always in Thy presence, or in always thinking [...]
"Humility makes us receptive to giving of others. You could not give unless I took. It is the taker that makes the giver." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
"Since Christ and His Passion are the cause of grace. and since spiritual refreshment, and charity cannot be without grace, it is clear from all that has been set forth that this sacrament (Eucharist) bestows grace." Source: St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
"In simple justice we owe Him all our thoughts and words and actions. Let us see to it that we pay our debt." Source: Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims
"Listen well so that you may understand your cruelty towards Jesus Christ. What would you say of a man whose father was about to be led to the place of execution, if he found that the executioners had not the power to hang him, should say to them: 'You have not the strength. Here are [...]
"Direct your zeal, therefore, first upon yourself; then you may with justice exercise it upon those about you. You are well versed in coloring your own actions with excuses which you will not accept from others, though it would be more just to accuse yourself and excuse your brother." Source: Thomas a’ Kempis, The [...]
"The Eucharistic presence of Christ begins at the moment of the consecration and endures as long as the Eucharistic species subsist. Christ is present whole and entire in each of the species and whole and entire in each of their parts, in such a way that the breaking of the bread does not divide Christ." [...]