'Let all our actions be directed to the end that God may be glorified in all things.'

St. Benedict

'I consider that it is obvious to everyone that it is impossible to live virtuously without the aid of prayer.'

St. John Chrysostom

"Mary said, 'You see before you the Lord's servant, let it happen to me as you have said.' And the angel left her" (Luke 1:38). Therefore, though it is God who takes the initiative of coming to dwell in the midst of men, and he is always the main architect of this plan, it is also true that he does not will to carry it out without our active cooperation.

Pope Benedict XVI

I prayed for strength that I might achieve; I was made weak that I might obey. I prayed for health that I might do great things; I was given infirmity that I might do better things. I prayed for riches that I might be happy; I was given poverty that I might be wise. I prayed for power that I might have the praise of others; I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God. I prayed for all things that I might enjoy life; I was given life that I might enjoy all things. I received nothing that I asked for - all that I hoped for; My prayers were answered - I am most blessed.

Unknown

'Maintain the truth lovingly, and always love truthfully'

Pope John Paul II

'Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.'

Leon Bloy

MY FAVORITE OF ALL TIME:

'Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. All things are passing. God alone does not change. Patience achieves everything. Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.'

St. Teresa of Avila

'We now record fetal heartbeats at 14 days post-conception. We record fetal brainwaves at 39 days post-conception. And I don’t expect you to answer this, but I do expect you to pay attention to it as you contemplate these big issues. We have this schizophrenic rule of the law where we have defined death as the absence of those, but we refuse to define life as the presence of those.'

Sen.Tom Coburn,

speaking to Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor,

confirmation hearing,

July 15, 2009

'You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You can't.'

Robert Downey Jr.

'Christ's insistence on the power of children is very striking. Almost more than anything else in the Gospel it proves that in God's eyes being something comes before doing something. He sets a little child among his apostles as an example of what he loves. ... How consistent it is with the incredible tenderness of God that his Christ, the Immortal Child, should be conceived by the power of the Spirit in the body of a child. That a child should bear a Child, to redeem the world. Our Lady was at the most fourteen when the angel came to her; perhaps she was younger. The whole world trembled on the word of a child, on a child's consent.'

Caryll Houselander

'Do you ever wonder why God values obedience more than sacrifice? ... Because obedience is someone else's idea of what you should sacrifice.'

David Manuel

'Give me a person of prayer, and such a one will be capable of accomplishing anything.'

St. Vincent de Paul

'The love we give away is the only love we keep...'

Elbert Hubbard

'He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

'Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one possibility: simple surrender and obedience -- not interpreting or applying it, but doing and obeying it. That is the only way to hear his words. He does not mean us to discuss it as an ideal. He realy means for us to get on with it.'

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

'Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.'

Sir John Templeton

'A man who was entirely careless of spiritual affairs died and went to hell. And he was much missed on earth by his old friends. His business agent went down to the gates of hell to see if there was any chance of bringing him back. But through he pleaded for the gates to be opened, the iron bars never yielded. His priest also went and argued: "He was not really a bad fellow, given time he would have matured. Let him out, please!" The gates remained stubbornly shut against all these voices. Finally, his mother came; she did not beg his release. Quietly, and with a strange catch in her voice, she said to Satan: "Let me in." Immediately the great doors swung open upon their hinges. For love goes down through the gates of hell and there redeems the dead.'

G.K. Chesterton

'Only after discovering Jesus do we realize "this is what I was waiting for ..."'

Pope Benedict XVI

'Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks. . . .Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.'

Albert Einstein
Time Magazine, Dec. 23, 1940

'Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.'

St. John Climaus

'He whose only possession is Jesus is very rich!'

St. Peter Julian Eymard

'Our perfection consists in uniting our will so intimately with God's will, that we will only desire what He wills. He who conforms most perfectly to the will of God will be the most perfect
Christian.'

St. Vincent de Paul