"To be chaste is to put on the nature of an incorporeal being. Chastity is a supernatural denial of what one is by nature, so that a mortal and corruptible body is competing in a truly marvelous way with incorporeal spirits. A chaste man is someone who has driven out bodily love by means of [...]
"Without prayer, they who receive Our Lord in Communion will never know how to converse with Him. Our Lord will not penetrate into their understanding, which is not open to Him. He will remain, as it were, in the antechamber. He will not enter into the depths of their heart. Their soul will not be [...]
"He who does not find the enemy within will find the enemy without." Source: Sheen Fulton, Guide to Contentment, Alba House, 2010.
"Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily; and our Lord Himself has told us that 'he that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much.'" Source: St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Random House, Inc., 2002.
"Humility, humility, and ever humility, as we can do nothing ourselves; all is purely and simply God’s grace." Source: St. Faustina, Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul
"Freedom has within itself the frightening power of turning an angel into a devil." Source: Sheen Fulton, Guide to Contentment, Alba House, 2010.
"The Church cannot and must not take upon herself the political battle to bring about the most just society possible. She cannot and must not replace the State. Yet at the same time she cannot and must not remain on the sidelines in the fight for justice. She has to play her part through rational [...]
"Fasting ends lust, roots our bad thoughts, frees one from evil dreams. Fasting makes for purity of prayer, an enlightened soul, a watchful mind, a deliverance from blindness. Fasting is the door of compunction, humble sighing, joyful contrition, and end to chatter, an occasion for silence, a custodian of obedience, a lightening of sleep, health [...]
"In the last analysis, no love is ever driven out; it is only conquered by another love. One cannot overcome a love of alcohol until he finds some other love which is more compelling." Source: Sheen Fulton, Guide to Contentment, Alba House, 2010.
"Why do you look for rest when you were born to work? Resign yourself to patience rather than to comfort, to carrying your cross rather than to enjoyment." Source: Thomas a’ Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Dover Thrift Editions, 1940.