Saint Alphonsus Liguori

Suppose that our Lord, Jesus Christ, would be present in only one church in the whole world . . . . What a beautiful tabernacle would be built! What lighting would be placed there! With what immense respect would respond all who succeeded to get close! Well, Jesus is now in every Catholic Church where there are consecrated hosts!

-- Saint Alphonsus Liguori

Saint Ignatius of Loyola

To give, and not to count the cost
to fight, and not to heed the wounds,
to toil, and not to seek for rest,
to labor, and not to ask for any reward,
save that of knowing that we do thy will.

-- Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Saint Francis of Assisi

 

 

Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.

-- Saint Francis of Assisi

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

God must be loved first, in order that one's neighbor, too, may be loved in God.

-- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Saint Ursula Ledóchowska

 

 

You must never ask Jesus to wait.

-- Saint Ursula Ledóchowska

Saint Augustine of Hippo

 

 

Strive to acquire the virtues you think your brothers lack, and then you will no longer see their defects, because you yourselves will not have them.

-- Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint John Plessington

But I know it will be said that a priest ordayned by authority derived from the See of Rome is, by the Law of the Nation, to die as a Traytor, but if that be so what must become of all the Clergymen of the Church of England, for the first Protestant Bishops had their Ordination from those of the Church of Rome, or not at all, as appears by their own writers so that Ordination comes derivatively from those now living. 

-- Saint John Plessington, from the gallows as he was about to be martyred