"In practice, one should always have on hand some supplementary prayers, some novena, for instance, over and above those of our profession, some devotion suited to the time or to the state of the soul." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist St. Peter Julian Eymard was a priest and the founder of [...]
"Most assuredly the sin of rash judgments is a spiritual jaundice, which makes everything look amiss to those who have it." Source: St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Random House, Inc., 2002.
"Do you know where this tree of death is rooted? In the height of pride, which is nourished by their sensual selfishness. Its core is impatience and its offshoot is the lack of any discernment. These are the four chief vices, which together kill the souls of those I have called trees of death, since [...]
"How much happier people would be if instead of exalting their ego to infinity, they reduced it to zero." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
"This sacrament confers grace spiritually together with the virtue of charity… as Gregory observes in a Homily for Pentecost, 'God's love is never idle; for, wherever it is it does great works.' And consequently through this sacrament, as far as its power is concerned, not only is the habit of grace and of virtue bestowed, [...]
"And so ought we always to judge our neighbor as charitably as may be; and if his actions are many-sided, we should accept the best." Source: St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Random House, Inc., 2002.
"Without humility, we cannot be pleasing to God. Practice the third degree of humility; that is, not only must one refrain from explaining and defending oneself when reproached with something, but one should rejoice at the humiliation." Source: St. Faustina, Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul
"If they wish to know what the Almighty cannot do, I shall tell them. He cannot lie." Source: St. Augustine, City of God
"The one who lives in this way, 'according to the flesh,' that is, who subjects himself – even if not altogether consciously, nevertheless effectively – to the threefold concupiscence, particularly to the concupiscence of the flesh, ceases to be capable of this freedom for which 'Christ has set us free'; he also ceases to be [...]
"Your body is not a profane thing, but something holy, august and sacred. It is the dwelling place of Jesus Christ, and the temple of the Holy Ghost. Even though the material violation of the body cannot wrest from the soul the flowers of its virginity, strive with all your might to preserve your mind, [...]