“Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random…God sees every one of us; He creates every soul, . . . for a purpose. He needs, He deigns to need, every one of us. He has an end for each of us; we are all equal in His sight.”
~ St. John Neumann
“In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.”
~ St. John of the Cross
“How easy it is to please Jesus, to ravish His heart. We have merely to love Him, while, at the same time, forgetting ourselves.”
~ St. Therese of Lisieux
“Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: Who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life.”
~ Pope (Emeritus) Benedict XVI
“Wherever I go I will find you, my God.”
~ St. John Baptist de la Salle
“If God gives you the burden, God will give the strength.”
~ St. Josemaria Escriva
“According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness and all that are mere fleabites in comparison: It was through pride that the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every other vice: It is the complete anti-God state of mind. Does this seem to you exaggerated? If so, think it over. I pointed out that the more pride one had, the more one disliked pride in others. In fact, if you want to find out how proud you are, the easiest way is to ask yourself, ‘How much do I dislike it when other people snub me or refuse to take any notice of me or show off?’ The point is that each person’s pride is in competition with everyone else’s pride. It is because I wanted to be the big noise at the party that I am so annoyed at someone else being the big noise…Pride is essentially competitive – it is competitive by its very nature – while the other vices are competitive only, so to speak, by accident. Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
~ C.S. Lewis
“When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.”
~ Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
“The Cross is the way to paradise, but only when it is borne willingly.”
~ St. Paul of the Cross
“Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.”
~ St. Ignatius of Loyola
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