Daily quotes on developing virtue from Saints, Popes and others.
"My dryness increased. Both Heaven and earth denied me consolation; yet, though surrounded by the waters of tribulation which I sought so ardently, I was the happiest person in the world." Source: St. Therese of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul, Saint Benedict Press, 2010.
"It is here that true humility can enter, for this virtue and that of detachment from self, I think, always go together. They are two sisters, who are inseparable." Source: Saint Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection, Dover Thrift Editions, 2012.
"Selfish love which deprives your neighbors of your charity and affection is the principle and foundation of all evil. Every scandal, hatred, cruelty, and everything unbecoming springs from the root of selfish love. It has poisoned the whole world and sickened the mystic body of holy Church and the universal body of Christianity. For all [...]
"If there is good in you, see more good in others, so that you may remain humble. It does no harm to esteem yourself less than anyone else, but it is very harmful to think yourself better than even one. The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy [...]
"You will remain in Eucharistic grace only by humility. This virtue is the dowry of love. You must possess it in order to go to Our Lord. With every other virtue you may be able to impersonate self and rest in self; but by humility, you disappear in order to allow Our Lord alone to [...]
"If you are given to avarice, think often of the folly of this sin, which makes us the slave of what was made only to serve us; remember how when we die we must leave all we possess to those who come after us, who may squander it, ruin their own souls b misusing it, [...]
"Love is the light – and in the end, the only light – that can always illuminate a world grown dim and give us the courage needed to keep living and working. Love is possible, and we are able to practice it because we are created in the image of God. To experience love and [...]
"Faith tells us that God has given his Son for our sakes and gives us the victorious certainly that it is really true: God is love! It thus transforms our impatience and our doubts into the sure hope that God holds the world in his hands and that, as the dramatic imagery of the end [...]
"That he (Brother Lawrence) had always been governed by love, without selfish views; and that having resolved to make the love of God the end of all this actions, he had found reasons to be well satisfied with his method. That he was pleased when he could take up a straw from the ground for [...]
"No sinner is ever consoled by having a moral theology flung at his head. Perhaps the reason why Peter and not John was chosen as the Head of the Church was because he fell and, therefore, understood human weakness. Suffering may be sent to us because we have been too narrow and selfish in our [...]