"Arm yourself like a man against the devil’s assaults. Curb your appetite and you will more easily curb every inclination of the flesh. Never be completely unoccupied, but read or write or pray or mediate or so something for the common good." -Thomas a' Kempis
"Third, true devotion to our Lady is holy, that is, it leads us to avoid sin and to imitate the virtues of Mary. Her ten principal virtues are: deep humility, lively faith, blind obedience, unceasing prayer, constant self-denial, surpassing purity, ardent love, heroic patience, angelic kindness, and heavenly wisdom." -St Louis de Montfort
"No work done with impetuosity and excitement was ever well done, and the old proverb 'Make haste slowly' is a good one." -St. Francis de Sales
"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." -Pope Benedict XVI
"Stated boldly, charity certainly means one of two things – pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people." -G.K. Chesterton
"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. How? Because this one confesses Me, and that one denies Me. 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 [...]
"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 [...]