"Macedonius explained to me, lowly that I am, why he had voluntarily adopted a humbled life of this kind. 'I have never felt such absence of conflict within me, such sweetness of divine light, as now,' he said." -St. John Climacus
The sacrament of charity, the Holy Eucharist is the gift that Jesus Christ makes of himself, thus revealing to us God's infinite love for every man and woman." -Pope Benedict XVI
"No earthly happiness would be permanent or thorough if it were not associated with a good conscience." -Ven. Fulton Sheen
"There is not, in effect, a more powerful means of sanctification in the Church than the Holy Eucharist, which is Itself the Source of every grace." - St. Peter Julian Eymard
"The vow of obedience consummates the sacrifice of the religious. It is the essential vow of religion. It alone might suffice, for it eminently comprises the others. It perfects the holocaust begun by poverty in the goods of fortune, and continued by chastity in those of the body, by offering to God the liberty, the [...]
"Absolutely speaking, the sacrament of the Eucharist is the greatest of all the sacraments… because it contains Christ Himself substantially: whereas the other sacraments contain a certain instrumental power which is a share of Christ's power." -St. Thomas Aquinas
"Ye, therefore, as well as all your fellow-travellers, are God- bearers, temple-bearers, Christ-bearers, bearers of holiness, adorned in all respects with the commandments of Jesus Christ, in whom also I exult that I have been thought worthy, by means of this Epistle, to converse and rejoice with you, because with respect to your Christian life [...]
"True humility lies in obedience and the most literal compliance with His Will!" -St. Francis de Sales
"But, it was retorted, if human love craves oneness, shall not divine love? If husband and wife seek to be one in the flesh, shall not the Christian and Christ crave for that oneness with one another? The memory of the Christ who lived twenty centuries ago, the recalling of His mercy and miracles through [...]
"But let us all by God's grace run the race of chastity, young men and maidens, old men and children ; not going after wantonness, but praising the name of Christ. Let us not be ignorant of the glory of chastity: for its crown is angelic, and its excellence above man." -St. Cyril of Jerusalem