"So let the person of faith do too. Let him leave childish behavior and grow up to fullness of virtue and persevere in its strength, leaving the pride of desire, which pants after foolish vice; but let him with anxious care meditate what may be useful for him, though before he stooped childishly to childish [...]
“'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of God;' and if so, woe be to the rich in spirit, for theirs must be the bitterness of Hell. By rich in spirit I mean him whose riches engross his mind, or whose mind is buried in his riches. He is poor in spirit [...]
"Just as the just begin to see their happiness more clearly at death, so these wretched souls are presented with the sight of their evil lives. There is no need for anyone else to show them, for their own conscience sets before them the sins they have committed and the virtues they ought to have [...]
"Again God's goodness shows itself here. He could have exacted of His creature absolute service without any recompense. But no. He wills that His service Itself should be useful to us and that, in serving Him, we labor far more for ourselves than for Him." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist St. [...]
"Where there is genuine virtue, there must be sacrifice as well; one’s whole life must be a sacrifice. It is only by means of sacrifice that souls can become useful." Source: St. Faustina, Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul
"The spousal meaning of the body has not become totally foreign to that heart: it has not been totally suffocated in it by concupiscence, but only habitually threatened. The 'heart' has become a battlefield between love and concupiscence. The more concupiscence dominates the heart, the less the heart experiences the gift of the person that [...]
"For this sin of ultimate despair is much more displeasing to me and harmful to them than all the other evils they have committed. And this is why: Other sins are committed with some selfish sensual pleasure, and sometimes they are regretted, and they can be regretted in such a way that the regret will [...]
"The Church searches for truth, proclaims it tirelessly, and recognizes it wherever it is manifested. This mission of truth is something that the Church can never renounce." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, CARITAS IN VERITATE (Charity in Truth), 6/29/2009
"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits. We can, by a creative effort, bring such sunlight to our souls that it makes radiant whatever events may come our way." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998. [...]
"What good does it do to speak learnedly about the Trinity if, lacking humility, you displease the Trinity? Indeed it is not learning that makes a man holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him pleasing to God. I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it. For what would it profit [...]