Daily quotes on developing virtue from Saints, Popes and others.
"No work done with impetuosity and excitement was ever well done, and the old proverb 'Make haste slowly' is a good one." Source: St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Random House, Inc., 2002.
"Have you no longer any sentiment of your sins? and, if you do see them, do you correct them? No, I am constantly falling back into the same faults, without paying any great attention to it. Then, are you already dead! You are without feeling! There is no state more frightful than that in which [...]
"As we contemplate the vast amount of work to be done, we are sustained by our faith that God is present alongside those who come together in his name to work for justice." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, CARITAS IN VERITATE (Charity in Truth), 6/29/2009
"Stated boldly, charity certainly means one of two things – pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people." Source: G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Moody Publishers, 2009.
"Modern man has become passive in the face of evil. He has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in a practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it." [...]
"Delicacy, refinement, consists in permitting one's self nothing that might offend God. It consists in abstaining, from even the appearance of evil. It is the honor due to our position and life. One preserves it through respect for God and for the honor of His service. No longer to be alive to it, is to [...]
"For people have within themselves struggles of confession and of denial… And in this struggle the question is: Is there a God or not? And the answer comes from the Holy Spirit Who dwells in the person: God is, and created you, and also redeemed you. But as long as this question and answer are [...]
"Therefore, my daughter, be careful and diligent in all your affairs; God, Who commits them to you, wills you to give them your best attention; but strive not to be anxious and solicitous, that is to say, do not set about your work with restlessness and excitement, and do not give way to bustle and [...]
"God does not give Himself to a chattering soul which, like a drone in a beehive, buzzes around but gathers no honey. A talkative soul is empty inside. It lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is [...]
"But by the precept He gave, God commended obedience, which is, in a sort, the mother and guardian of all the virtues in the reasonable creature, which was so created that submission is advantageous to it, while the fulfillment of its own will in preference to the Creator’s is destruction." Source: St. Augustine, City [...]