Saint James the Lesser the Apostle

For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. 

-- Saint James the Lesser the Apostle

Saint Athanasius the Great

Out of his loving-kindness for us he came to us, and we see this in the way he revealed himself openly to us. Taking pity on mankind's weakness, and moved by our corruption, he could not stand aside and see death have the mastery over us. He did not want creation to perish and his Father's work in fashioning man to be in vain. He therefore took to himself a body, no different from our own, for he did not wish simply to be in a body or only to be seen. 

-- Saint Athanasius the Great

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

Blessed Emilian Kowcz

I understand that you are trying to get me released. But I beg you not to do this. Yesterday they killed fifty people. If I am not here, who will help them to get through these sufferings? They would go on their way to eternity with all their sins and in the depths of unbelief, which would take them to hell. But now they go to death with their heads held aloft, leaving all their sins behind them. And so they pass over to the eternal city.

-- Blessed Emilian Kowcz from the last letter to his family