Saint Nathanael bar Tolomai

Rabbi: Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel. 

-- Saint Nathanael bar Tolomai from The Gsopel of John 1: 49

Saint Rose of Lima

Lord, increase my sufferings, and with them increase Your love in my heart. 

-- Saint Rose of Lima

Saint Francis de Sales

Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence. 

-- Saint Francis de Sales

Pope Saint Pius X

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. 

-- Pope Saint Pius X

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Love is sufficient of itself; it gives pleasure by itself and because of itself. It is its own merit, its own reward. Love looks for no cause outside itself, no effect beyond itself. Its profit lies in the practice. Of all the movements, sensations and feelings of the soul, love is the only one in which the creature can respond to the Creator and make some sort of similar return however unequal though it be. For when God loves, all he desires is to be loved in return. The sole purpose of his love is to be loved, int he knowledge that those who love him are made happy by their love of him. 

-- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux from a sermon

Saint Francis de Sales

Some torment themselves in seeking means to discover the art of loving God, and do not know - poor creatures - that there is no art or means of loving Him but to love those who love Him - that is, to begin to practice those things which are pleasing to Him. 

-- Saint Francis de Sales

Saint Alphonsus Liguori

Nothing but self-will can separate us from God.

-- Saint Alphonsus Liguori