Daily quotes on developing virtue from Saints, Popes and others.
"We cannot get a real satisfaction out of our work unless we pause, frequently, to ask ourselves why we are doing it, and whether its purpose is one our minds wholeheartedly approve. Perhaps one reason why so many of our economic and political projects miscarry is because they are in the hands of men with [...]
"Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware of." Source: Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God and [...]
"With our eyes fixed on Jesus and his merciful gaze, we experience the love of the Most Holy Trinity… Everything in him speaks of mercy. Nothing in him is devoid of compassion." Source: Pope Francis, Misericordiae Vultus: BULL OF INDICTION OF THE EXTRAORDINARY JUBILEE OF MERCY
"In the world, a man released from prison is always marked by dishonor and a bad name. But Jesus rehabilitates those that He pardons. He treats them as if they had never offended Him, and frequently the greatest sinners become the greatest saints." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist St. Peter Julian [...]
"Today, I was visited by a certain lay person who has caused me a lot of sorrow and who has abused my goodness, telling many lies. At the first moment, I saw her, the blood froze in my veins, because there stood before my eyes all that I had to suffer because of her, although [...]
"Friendship demands very close correspondence between those who love one another, otherwise it can never take root or continue." Source: St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Random House, Inc., 2002.
"Now, of all goods, spiritual or bodily, there is none at all to compare with virtue. For virtue makes a good use of both of itself and of all other goods in which lies man’s happiness; and where it is absent, no matter how many good things a man has, they are not for his [...]
"Christ’s words are demanding. They demand that in the sphere in which relationships with persons of the other sex are formed, man has full and deep conscious of his own acts, and above all in his interior acts, and that he is consciousness of the inner impulses of his own 'heart' so that he can [...]
"It is clear that without gratuitousness, there can be no justice in the first place… attitudes of gratuitousness cannot be established by law." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, CARITAS IN VERITATE (Charity in Truth), 6/29/2009
"Learn, then, to suffer little things now that you may not have to suffer greater ones in eternity. Prove here what you can bear hereafter. If you can suffer only a little now, how will you be able to endure eternal torment? If a little suffering makes you impatient now, what will hell fire do? [...]