"Let your love be your science of adoration. When you go to adore, do not begin with books, think for yourselves. Ask the Divine Master to instruct you. Be certain that an Adoration made by your own weakness, with all your miseries, is of more value than all you can borrow from books, because it [...]
"If, therefore, a marriage is based wholly upon feeling and emotion, then love dies when the emotion dies. But where there is a love of the person because of the nobility of character and good-heartedness, then love never ends, but increases from day to day." Source: Sheen Fulton, Guide to Contentment, Alba House, 2010. [...]
"When people visit a house, they ask to see the master, and not the domestics. It they make a mistake and salute the servant, ought she not to say: 'You mistake. I am nobody here. I shall call my master'? In the same way you will be no longer anything, you will receive nothing, you [...]
"The Holy Mass consists of the words of Consecration. How wonderful it is! After the Consecration the good God is there as He is in heaven. If men really knew this mystery they would die of love. God has to spare us because of our weakness. The Holy Sacrifice is the same as that which [...]
"Therefore, after having fixed our gaze on the glory of the Trinity that shines on man's path, let us begin a catechesis on that great yet humble celebration of divine glory which is the Eucharist. Great, because it is the principal expression of Christ's presence among us 'always, to the close of the age' (Mt [...]
"Indeed, it has often happened that those who had been steadfast under violent assaults, failing to correspond faithfully to Divine Grace, have yielded under the pressure of very trifling temptations." Source: St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Random House, Inc., 2002.
"On the initial day of the retreat, I was visited by one of the sisters who had come to make her perpetual vows. She confided to me that she had no trust in God and became discouraged at every little thing. I answered her, 'It is well that you have told me this, Sister; I [...]
"The inexhaustible richness of this sacrament is expressed in the different names we give it. Each name evokes certain aspects of it. It is called: The Eucharistic assembly (synaxis), because the Eucharist is celebrated amid the assembly of the faithful, the visible expression of the Church." Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church #1397 [...]
"The venerable father, Master Avila, used to say, that amongst all sanctuaries he could neither find nor desire a more delightful one than a church in which the Most Blessed Sacrament is reserved." Source: St. Alphonsus Liguori, Visits to the Most Holy Sacrament
"Saint Paul, in his hymn to charity (cf. 1 Cor 13), teaches us that it is always more than activity alone: 'If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.'" Source: Pope Benedict XVI, God is Love: Deus Caritas [...]