Saint Richard Pampuri

Pray that neither self indulgence nor pride, nor any other evil passion, prevent me from seeing in my patients Jesus who suffers, and from healing and comforting Him. 

--Saint Richard Pampuri in a letter to his sister, a missionary nun

Saint Joseph Benedict Cottolengo

When I am in Heaven, where everything is possible, I will cling to the mantle of the Mother of God and I will not turn my eyes from you. But do not forget what this poor old man has said to you. 

-- Saint Joseph Benedict Cottolengo from his deathbed

Saint Catherine of Siena

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God. 

-- Saint Catherine of Siena 

Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort

There are three kinds of love: emotional love, rational love, and the supernatural love of faith. In other words, the love that resides in the lower part of man, in his body; the love in the higher part, his reason; and the love in the highest part of man, in the summit of the soul, that is, the intelligence enlightened by faith.

-- Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort