Saint Philip Neri

Bear the cross and do not make the cross bear you.

-- Saint Philip Neri

Saint Bede the Venerable

“My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my savior.” With these words Mary first acknowledges the special gifts she has been given. Above all other saints, she alone could truly rejoice in Jesus, her savior, for she knew that He who was the source of eternal salvation would be born in time in her body, in one person both her own son and her Lord.

-- Saint Bede the Venerable

Saint Louis de Montfort

 

 

He who fights even the smallest distractions faithfully when he says even the very smallest prayer, will also be faithful in great things.

-- Saint Louis de Montfort

Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus

 

 

There is a perfect Trinity, in glory and eternity and sovereignty, neither divided nor estranged. Wherefore there is nothing either created or in servitude in the Trinity; nor anything superinduced, as if at some former period it was non-existent, and at some later period it was introduced. And thus neither was the Son ever wanting to the Father, nor the Spirit to the Son; but without variation and without change, the same Trinity abideth ever.

-- Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus