Saint Teresa Eustochio Verzeri

To you and to your Institute Jesus Christ has given the precious gift of His Heart, for from no one else can you learn holiness, He being the inexhaustible source of true holiness. 

-- Saint Teresa Eustochio Verzeri to the first members of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Saint Genoveva Torres Morales

I loved freedom of heart very much, and worked and am working to achieve it fully. It does the soul so much good that every effort is nothing compared with this free condition of the heart.

 -- Saint Genoveva Torres Morales

Saint John of Damascus

Being comes first, and afterwards, being good or evil. However, had God kept from being made those who through His goodness were to have existence but who by their own choice were to become evil, then evil would have prevailed over the goodness of God. Thus, all things which God makes He makes good, but each one becomes good or evil by his own choice.

-- Saint John of Damascus