"The source of this pride is their selfish love for themselves. Everything here is the exact opposite of what I have told you about true obedience. How can these wretches, bereft of charity, be otherwise than in pain? They are forced to bow the head of their will while pride holds it high. Their every [...]
"The remembrance of what Jesus suffered is a cure for remembrance of wrongs, shaming it powerfully with His patient endurance." Source: St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent
"There are two kinds of love: love for its own pleasure, or love for the sake of another; the first is carnal love, the second is spiritual." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
"It is constantly assured, especially in our Tolstoyan tendencies, that when the lion lies down with the lamb the lion becomes lamb-like. But that is brutal annexation and imperialism on the part of the lamb. That is simply the lamb absorbing the lion instead of the lion eating the lamb. The real problem is – [...]
"We cannot love what we do not know." Source: Ven. Fulton Sheen, These are the Sacraments
"The Church is commissioned to announce the mercy of God, the beating heart of the Gospel, which in its own way must penetrate the heart and mind of every person." Source: Pope Francis, Misericordiae Vultus: BULL OF INDICTION OF THE EXTRAORDINARY JUBILEE OF MERCY
"Without care and diligence you will never acquire virtue. When you begin to grow lukewarm, you are falling into the beginning of evil; but if you give yourself to fervor, you will find peace and will experience less hardship because of God’s grace and the love of virtue." Source: Thomas a’ Kempis, The Imitation [...]
"Jesus: 'My daughter, let three virtues adorn you in a particular way: humility, purity of intention and love. Do nothing beyond what I demand of you, and accept everything that My hand gives you. Strive for a life of recollection so that you can hear My voice, which is so soft that only recollected souls [...]
"Comprehend well this grand principle. Our Lord who has assumed the state of all the virtues in the Blessed Sacrament, having entered into His glory, can no longer make meritorious acts of them. Nevertheless, He ardently desires to practise them for the glory of His Father. He wishes to live again, to find a soul [...]
"Faith means emerging from the isolation of one’s existence and becoming 'one body' with Christ, that is, existential unity with him. And this always means: existential unity of all who have become 'one body.'" Source: Pope Benedict XVI, Dogmatic Preaching: Applying Christian Doctrine to Daily Life, Ignatius Press, 2011.