'Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.'

Mother Angelica

'Perfection consists in renouncing ourselves, in
carrying our cross, and in following Jesus Christ. Now, he who renounces himself most perfectly carries his cross the best and follows nearest to Jesus Christ is he who never does his own will, but always that of God.'

St. Vincent de Paul

'Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.'

Helen Keller

'Having resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.'

Malachy MCourt

'If you find God with great ease, perhaps it is not God that you have found.'

Thomas Merton

'Be proud that you are helping God to bear the Cross, and don't grasp at comforts. It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day. Serve him without pay.'

St. Theresa of Avila

'Religious life, like married life, begins again every day. Religious life, like married life, is the life of love. And love never stops still. The expression of any kind of life which is founded on love is inevitably that of sacrifice. Love of God, love of a person, love of an ideal: each involves immolation. The terms of love are unconditional surrender -- constantly repeated.'

Dom Hubert van Zeller, OSB

'Our faith is not born from a myth or an idea, but from an encounter with the Risen One, in the life of the Church.'

Pope Benedict XVI

'Humility is a fortified town; it repels all attacks. The sight of it obliges the enemy to turn and flee.'

Ven. Louis de Granada

'If I had to advise parents, I should tell them totake great care about the people with whom their children associate . .. Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by natureto follow what is worse than what is better.'

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

'There is no affliction, trial, or labour difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

It is better to be the child of God than king of the whole world.
St. Aloysius Gonzaga

Want to start capturing great quotes, sayings -- here it goes; enjoy

'Nonne bic est fabri filius? Nonne bic est faber filius Mariae? - "Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary?" This, said of Jesus, may very well be said of you, with a bit of amazement and a bit of mockery, when you really decide to carry out the will of God, to be an instrument: "But isn't this the one. . . ?" Say nothing, and let your works confirm your mission.'

St. Josemaria Escriva

'If there is anyone who is not enlightened by this sublime magnificence of created things, he is blind. If there is anyone who, seeing all these works of God, does not praise Him, he is dumb; if there is anyone who, from so many signs, cannot perceive God, that man is foolish. . . In everything, whether it is a thing sensed or a thing known, God Himself is hidden within.'

St. Bonaventure

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