Daily quotes on developing virtue from Saints, Popes and others.
"PRAYER, incessant prayer, otherwise called the habit of prayer, is necessary for every Christian... We can do no good, practice no virtue without prayer, which obtains for us the grace of goodness and virtue. Prayer is the foundation of all the virtues, and faith itself, the beginning of justice, it but the exercise of prayer." [...]
"Yet the requirements of justice must be safeguarded, with due consideration for the way in which the capital was generated and the harm to individuals that will result if it is not used where it was produced." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, CARITAS IN VERITATE (Charity in Truth), 6/29/2009
"Repose allows us to contemplate the little things we do in their relationship to the vast things which alone can give them worth and meaning. It reminds us that all actions get their worth from God: 'worship' means admitting 'worth.'" Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998. [...]
"Either to seek or to shun society is a fault in one striving to lead a devout life in the world, such as I am now speaking of. To shun society implies indifference and contempt for one’s neighbors; and to seek it savors of idleness and uselessness." Source: St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to [...]
"Today, I was talking with the Lord, and He said to me, 'There are souls with whom I can do nothing. They are souls that are continuously observing others, but know nothing of what is going on within their own selves. They talk about others continually, even during this of grand silence, which is reserved [...]
"Purity is a requirement of love. It is the dimension of the inner truth of love in man’s 'heart.'” Pope John Paul II, Man and Woman He Created Them, Pauline Books and Media, 2006.
"It is never too late for God’s grace. It is a peculiar psychological fact that those who turn to God late in life generally consider all their previous life wasted." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
"I once saw three monks receive the same type of injury at the same time. The first felt it keenly, but did not speak; the second was delighted by the thought of the reward the injury would bring him and felt compassion for the wrongdoer; the third wept fervently at the thought of the harm [...]
"It is irresponsible to view sexuality merely as a source of pleasure and, likewise, to regulate it through strategies of mandatory birth control." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, CARITAS IN VERITATE (Charity in Truth), 6/29/2009
"He who does not overcome small faults, shall fall little by little into greater ones." Source: Thomas a’ Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Dover Thrift Editions, 1940.