Saint Thomas Aquinas

Almsgiving proceeds from a merciful heart and is more useful for the one who practices it than for the one who receives it, for the man who makes a practice of almsgiving draws out a spiritual profit from his acts, whilst those who receive his alms receive only a temporal benefit.

-- Saint Thomas Aquinas

Saint Gianna Beretta Molla

If you must decided between me and the child, do not hesitate: choose the child - I insist on it. Save him.

-- Saint Gianna Beretta Molla

Saint Macarius the Wonder Worker

To you, O Master, who loves all mankind

I hasten on rising from sleep.

By your mercy I go out to do your work

and I make my prayer to you.

Help me at all times and in all things.

Deliver me from every evil thing of this world

and from pursuit by the devil.

Save me and bring me to your eternal kingdom,

For you are my Creator,

You inspire all good thoughts in me.

In you is all my hope and to you I give glory,

now and forever.

-- Saint Macarius the Wonder Worker

Saint Frances Salesia

Let us establish a permanent Spring season in our heart through ‘yes’ often repeated to all of God’s permissions and wills.

-- Saint Frances Salesia

Pope Saint Pius X

Whereas in the Lord's Prayer, we are bidden to ask for 'our daily bread,' the Holy Fathers of the Church all but unanimously teach that by these words must be understood, not so much that material bread which is the support of the body, as the Eucharistic bread, which ought to be our daily food.

-- Pope Saint Pius X

Saint John the Baptist

Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 

-- Saint John the Baptist from the Gospel According to John 1: 29

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

It is better to be the child of God than king of the whole world.

-- Saint Aloysius Gonzaga