““Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.” St. Thomas More”
““Not to resist an error is to approve of it – not to define a truth is to reject it.” St Augustine”
“As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to Heaven by Mary. St Thomas Aquinas ”
“Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God. Pope St. John Paul II ”
““If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you.” St. Thomas of Villanova ”
““It is better to be a child of God than king of the whole world!” St. Aloysius Gonzaga ”
“There is nothing to be dreaded in human ills except sin—not poverty, or disease, or insult, or ill treatment, or dishonour, or death, which people call the worst of evils. To those who love spiritual wisdom, these things are only the names of disasters, names that have no substance. No, the true disaster is to offend God, to do anything that displeases him.” St. John Chrysostom ”
““Trials, tribulation, anguish, anxiety are permitted by the very One Who gives peace.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen ”
““As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.” St. Basil the Great ”
““Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.” St. Thomas Aquinas ”
““If you learn everything except Christ, you learn nothing. If you learn nothing except Christ, you learn everything.” St. Bonaventure ”
““If I am distracted, Holy Communion helps me to become recollected. If opportunities are offered by each day to offend my God, I arm myself anew each day for the combat by the reception of the Eucharist. If I am in special need of light and prudence in order to discharge my burdensome duties, I draw nigh to my Saviour and seek counsel and light from him.” St. Thomas More ”
““He took what is mine in order that He might impart to me what is His. He took it not to overturn it but to fill it.” St. Ambrose ”
““I know now that true charity consists in bearing all of our neighbours’ defects—not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.” St. Therese of Lisieux ”
““If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.” St. Augustine of Hippo ”
““The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” St. Augustine of Hippo ”
““The world offers you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.” Pope Benedict XVI”
““The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the world.” Pope Saint John Paul II”
““Genuine love is demanding, but its beauty lies precisely in the demands it makes.” Pope Francis”
““We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta”
““To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.” G.K. Chesterton”
““If God sends you many sufferings it is a sign that He has great plans for you, and certainly wants to make you a Saint.” St. Ignatius of Loyola”
““The future starts today, not tomorrow.” St. John Paul II”
““You will never be happy if your happiness depends on getting solely what you want. Change the focus. Get a new centre. Will what God wills, and your joy no man shall take from you.” Venerable Fulton Sheen”
““The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.” Pope St. Gregory the Great”
““Besides, every human being, even the child in the womb, has the right to life directly from God and not from his parents, not from any society or human authority.“ Pope Pius XII”
““No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.” Pope Pius XI ”
““God is not only true, but Truth itself.” Pope Leo XIII ”
““The family is more sacred than the state.” Pope Pius XI ”
““The world has heard enough of the so-called ‘rights of man.’ Let it hear something of the rights of God.” Pope Leo XIII”
““We do not know what the future holds Whether the battle will be bloody or unbloody. We only know that the world is beginning to polarize, and the good are becoming better and the bad are becoming worse. Whether swords will be used we do not know, and whether they will be sheathed or unscathed we do not know. There is only one thing that we do know. That is, that if the truth wins, we win! And if the truth... Ah, but the truth can’t lose!! “ Venerable Fulton Sheen ”
““Compassion should be shown first to the faithful and afterwards to the enemies of the church.” Pope Saint Gregory I”
““In some causes silence is dangerous.” St Ambrose of Milan
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““The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.” St Jerome ”
““When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.” St Teresa of Avila ”
““Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” St. Catherine of Siena ”
““It is so good, so sweet and above all, so beneficial to suffer.” St Bernadette of Lourdes ”
““Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.” St Therese of Lisieux”