Daily quotes on developing virtue from Saints, Popes and others.
"Cannot the Church leave this service to the great variety of other philanthropic organization? The answer is No, the Church cannot do this. She must practice love for neighbor as a community, too, or she would proclaim the God of love in an incomplete and insufficient way." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, God is Love: Deus Caritas [...]
"In practice, one should always have on hand some supplementary prayers, some novena, for instance, over and above those of our profession, some devotion suited to the time or to the state of the soul." Source: Â St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist St. Peter Julian Eymard was a priest and the founder of [...]
"Most assuredly the sin of rash judgments is a spiritual jaundice, which makes everything look amiss to those who have it." Source: St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Random House, Inc., 2002.
"Do you know where this tree of death is rooted? In the height of pride, which is nourished by their sensual selfishness. Its core is impatience and its offshoot is the lack of any discernment. These are the four chief vices, which together kill the souls of those I have called trees of death, since [...]
"How much happier people would be if instead of exalting their ego to infinity, they reduced it to zero." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
"That many do not advance in the Christian progress because they stick in penances, and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end. That this appeared plainly by their works, and was the reason why we see so little solid virtue." Source: Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence [...]
"Let us note straight away that the Greek Old Testament uses the word eros only twice, while the New Testament does not use it at all: of the three Greek words for love, eros, philia (the love of friendship) and agape, New Testament writers prefer the last, which occurs rather infrequently in Greek usage." [...]
"And so ought we always to judge our neighbor as charitably as may be; and if his actions are many-sided, we should accept the best." Source: St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Random House, Inc., 2002.
"Without humility, we cannot be pleasing to God. Practice the third degree of humility; that is, not only must one refrain from explaining and defending oneself when reproached with something, but one should rejoice at the humiliation." Source: St. Faustina, Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul
"If they wish to know what the Almighty cannot do, I shall tell them. He cannot lie." Source: St. Augustine, City of God