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“May Christ be heard in our language, may Christ be seen in our life, may he be perceived in our hearts.”

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St. Peter Damian

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“The Eucharist is the life of the people. The Eucharist gives them a center of life. All can come together without the barriers of race or language in order to celebrate the feast days of the Church. It gives them a law of life, that of charity, of which it is the source; thus it forges between them a common bond, a Christian kinship.”

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St. Peter Julian Eymard

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“Do not let a day pass without doing some good in it.”

“Nothing helps a man more than prayer.”

“We must always remember that God does everything well, although we may not see the reason of what He does.”

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St. Philip Neri

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“Pray, hope and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer. Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God’s heart.”

“Walk cheerfully and with a sincere and open heart as much as you can, and when you cannot always maintain this holy joy, at least do not lose your trust in God.”

“Do not tire yourself over things that cause anxiety and worry. Only one thing is necessary: to lift up your spirit and love God.”

“Be cheerful. Jesus will take care of everything. Let us trust in Jesus and our heavenly Mother, and everything will work out well.”

“The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrifice, and with extreme effort.”

“Jesus is with you even when you don’t feel His presence. He is never so close to you as He is during your spiritual battles. He is always there, close to you, encouraging you to fight your battle courageously. He is there to ward off the enemy’s blows so that you may not be hurt.” 

“How consoling it is to know you are always under the protection of a heavenly spirit who never abandons you, not even when you are actually offending God. How delightful is this great truth to the one who believes. Who is to be feared, then, by the devout soul who is trying to love Jesus, when accompanied by such an illustrious warrior?

“Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on its boundless grief and how precious is our soul.”

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St. Pio da Pietrelcina

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“Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.”

“… nobody ever knew Christ so profoundly as she [the Blessed Mother] did, and nobody can ever be more competent as a guide and teacher of the knowledge of Christ.”

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St. Pius X

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“Love is a marvelous and heavenly thing.  It never tires and never thinks that it has done enough.”

“Whoever finds God finds everything, whoever loses God loses everything.”

“Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.”

“Let prayer delight thee more than disputations, and the charity which builds up more than the knowledge which puffs up.”

“What is easier, sweeter, more pleasant, than to love goodness, beauty, and love, the fullness of which you are, O Lord, my God.”

“Know that you have been created for the glory of God and your own eternal salvation.  This is your goal; this is the center of your life; this is the treasure of your heart.”

“The school of Christ is the school of charity.  On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian.  Charity will be the whole syllabus.”

“An ounce of charity is better than a hundred loads of reason.”

“Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.”

“Flee idleness…for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.”

“Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and maintain these as the forbearing charity whereby we put up with one another’s defects.”

“It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what God has done in creation, this is in truth a divine work.”

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St. Robert Bellarmine

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“Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.”

“… the gifts of grace increase as the struggles increase.” 

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St. Rose of Lima

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“I die with joy, for I desire to be united to my God. Live so as not to fear death. For those who live well in the world, death is not frightening, but sweet and precious.” 

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St. Rose of Viterbo

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“Lord, I lean on You alone for strength. Give me your arm to support me, your shoulders to carry me, your breast on which to lay my head, your Cross to uphold me, your Eucharist to nourish me. On you Lord, I shall sleep and rest in peace.”

“He who has Jesus has everything.”

“Learn to let others do their share of the work. Things may be done less well, but you will have more peace of soul and health of body. And what temporal interest should we not sacrifice in order to gain these blessings?”

“It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.”

“Let us bear our cross and leave it to God to determine the length and the weight.”

“There are no difficulties except for those who worry too much about tomorrow.”

“Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God’s will.”

“Never forget that the road to Heaven is the Way of the Cross. Jesus has called us to follow Him, bearing the Cross as He did.”

“The more I reflect on the graces I have received, the more they astonish me and make me tremble.”

“If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy.”

“We may not understand His Will for us in time, but in eternity the veil will be drawn and we shall see that He acted only for our happiness.”

“If we love Jesus, we shall be loved in return by Him, and that is perfect happiness.”

“He will never let the trial surpass the strength He gives you, and at the very moment you think yourself overwhelmed by sorrow, He will lift you up and give you peace.”

“Love aright and you will never be sad.  Embrace God’s will and you will be filled with joy and peace.”

“God alone and the desire of His glory nothing else matters.”

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St. Rose Philippine Duchesne

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“Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did.”

“And as for a book from which to grow in the love of God, there is no better book than Jesus Christ crucified.”

“The greatest poison of our time is indifference.”

“I prayed very hard to Our Lady to tell me what would happen to me. She appeared, holding in her hands two crowns, one white, one red. She asked if I would like to have them—one was for purity, the other for martyrdom. I said, ‘I choose both.’ She smiled and disappeared.”

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St. Maximilian Kolbe

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