"The purpose of having is to remedy our incompleteness. If we had perfect life, we would never need nourishment. Because our knowledge is imperfect, we need to complement it with education. Because our personality is inadequate for happiness, we need love." Source: Sheen Fulton, Guide to Contentment, Alba House, 2010.
"The Church's sacraments are ordained for helping man in the spiritual life. But the spiritual life is analogous to the corporeal, since corporeal things bear a resemblance to spiritual. Now it is clear that just as generation is required for corporeal life, since thereby man receives life; and growth, whereby man is brought to maturity: [...]
"There it was also that St. Francis Xavier found refreshment in the midst of his many labors in India; for he employed his days in toiling for souls, and his nights in the presence of the Most Blessed Sacrament. St. John Francis Kegis did the same thing; and some times finding the church closed, he [...]
"Faith alone can reveal Him or teach me what He is; by Faith I learn more of God, and in a very little time, than I could do in the schools after may a long year. Oh! Faith, Faith: oh! Marvelous the knowledge of his Creator. Oh! Virtue altogether lovely, so little known, and still [...]
"True peace of heart, then, is found resisting passions, not in satisfying them. There is no peace in the carnal man, in the man given to vain attractions, but there is peace in the fervent and spiritual man." Source: Thomas a’ Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Dover Thrift Editions, 1940.
"Because Christ himself is present in the sacrament of the altar, he is to be honored with the worship of adoration. 'To visit the Blessed Sacrament is . . . a proof of gratitude, an expression of love, and a duty of adoration toward Christ our Lord' (Paul VI, MF 66)." Source: Catechism of [...]
"Ask Our Lord earnestly for His spirit of Eucharistic humility, of which you have the model always under your eyes. His Presence gives you the grace of it. Hold it in love and practice it faithfully. May every pulsation of your heart say to God: 'Give me humility! Make me humble! Make me love humiliation!'" [...]
"If anyone strives to be delivered from his troubles out of love of God, he will strive patiently, gently, humbly, and calmly, looking for deliverance rather to God’s Goodness and Providence than to his own industry or efforts; but if self-love is the prevailing object he will grow hot and eager in seeking relief, as [...]
"I turned myself over to the vain things of life, paying no attention to the call of grace, although my soul found no satisfaction in any of these things. The incessant call of grace caused me much anguish; I tried, however, to stifle it with amusements. Interiorly, I shunned God, turning with all my heart [...]
"The Eucharist, in fact, is the perfect 'sacrifice of praise', the highest glorification that rises from earth to heaven, 'the source and summit of the Christian life in which (the children of God) offer the divine victim (to the Father) and themselves along with it' (Lumen gentium, n. 11)." Source: Pope St. John Paul [...]