"Ask Our Lord earnestly for His spirit of Eucharistic humility, of which you have the model always under your eyes. His Presence gives you the grace of it. Hold it in love and practice it faithfully. May every pulsation of your heart say to God: 'Give me humility! Make me humble! Make me love humiliation!'" [...]
"I turned myself over to the vain things of life, paying no attention to the call of grace, although my soul found no satisfaction in any of these things. The incessant call of grace caused me much anguish; I tried, however, to stifle it with amusements. Interiorly, I shunned God, turning with all my heart [...]
"If you labor at humility, you labor at true sanctity. The more humble you are the more holy you will be. Humility is the exact measure, and it never deceives. Humility is the mother, the root, and the flower of all the virtues. It is the mistress of God's power, the guardian of His treasures [...]
"What does the Gospel mean when it says, describing the Risen Lord’s appearance at Emmaus, 'He gave the impression that He was going on farther; but they urged Him to stay with them'? It means Our Lord passes us by each day in every opportunity to do good. If we neglect the opportunity, He does [...]
"You will remain in Eucharistic grace only by humility. This virtue is the dowry of love. You must possess it in order to go to Our Lord. With every other virtue you may be able to impersonate self and rest in self; but by humility, you disappear in order to allow Our Lord alone to [...]
"A religious person, to whom God gave great love for the Most Blessed Sacrament, amongst other things, wrote as follows in a letter: 'I see that every good thing that I have comes to me from the Most Blessed Sacrament. I have given and consecrated my whole self to Jesus in this Sacrament. I see [...]
"The Church insists that we be in the state of grace in order to receive Our Lord in the Eucharist. As a corpse cannot receive nourishment, so neither may one without the divine life in his soul receive the divine nourishment." Source: Ven. Fulton Sheen, These are the Sacraments
"Anyone who desires to receive Christ in Eucharistic communion must be in the state of grace. Anyone aware of having sinned mortally must not receive communion without having received absolution in the sacrament of penance." Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church #1415
"And all these receive the same sacraments; and as they do, some are bathed in fiery brilliance, but the others are overshadowed by a dark cloud… those who are radiant with good deeds and receive it with devout mind and pure faith and illumined by the gift of the Holy Spirit for the salvation of [...]
"I see that God never tries us beyond what we are able to suffer. Oh, I fear nothing; if God sends such great suffering to a soul. He upholds it with an even greater grace, although we are not aware of it. One act of trust at such moments gives greater glory to God than [...]