Saint Dominic Savio

Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him. 

-- Saint Dominic Savio

Saint John Vianney

Prayer is to our soul what rain is to the soil. Fertilize the soil ever so richly, it will remain barren unless fed by frequent rains.

-- Saint John Vianney

Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Where there is Christ Jesus, there is the Catholic Church. 

-- Saint Ignatius of Antioch

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