Daily quotes on developing virtue from Saints, Popes and others.
Daily Virtue Quote – G.K. Chesterton
"It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything – even pride." Source: G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Moody Publishers, 2009.
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"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. [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Peter Julian Eymard
"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 [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Francis de Sales
"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.
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Faustina
"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 [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"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 [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"The fact that we conceal sins makes them peculiarly our own. Then they are not just our fault; they are our very penalty. Any concealed fault lays a heavy burden on the soul over and above the remorse for the sin itself. The shame of having hid it in the heart always makes the hider [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – St. John Climacus
"Like the sun which shines on all alike, vainglory beams on every occupation. What I mean is this. I fast, and turn vainglorious. I stop fasting so that I will draw no attention to myself, and I become vainglorious over my prudence. I dress well or badly, and am vainglorious in either case. I talk [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"How does a man come to faith in the Divinity of Christ? His reason establishes certain motives of credibility, namely, (1) Anyone who comes from God should be pre-announced; (2) He should be able to work wonders and signs as an attestation that He is a Divine messenger; (3) nothing that He teaches should be [...]
Daily Virue Quote – Pope Francis
“The Church feels the urgent need to proclaim God’s mercy. Her life is authentic and credible only when she becomes a convincing herald of mercy.” Source: Pope Francis, Misericordiae Vultus: BULL OF INDICTION OF THE EXTRAORDINARY JUBILEE OF MERCY