"The Psalm says of those who are tempted by thoughts of pleasure, anger, love of praise and the like, that the sun burns them by day and the moon by night (cf. Ps 121:6). Pray, then, to be sheltered by the cool and refreshing cloud of God's grace, so that you may escape the scorching heat of the enemy." --St. John of Karpathos

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. ~G.K. Chesterton

The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man’s humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness. ~Blessed John Paul II

The Eucharist is the heart of the Christian religion. It is an ineffable mystery that embraces the untold depths of divine love, and in which God, giving himself to us, bestows upon us all blessings and graces. ~St. Francis De Sales

You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all. ~St. Therese of Lisieux

On Suffering: "We are fools if we feel sorry for ourselves when given the honor of bearing a sliver of the True Cross." ~S. M. Hutchens

The supreme Christian insight is that God is love. The supreme Christian experience, which cannot be separated from authentic insight, is to know this love in your own heart. All this is mere words -- sounding brass and tinkling cymbals -- unless we take practical steps to be open to the reality to which the words point. ~Fr. John Main, o.s.b.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. ~G. K. Chesterton

Living out one’s faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it’s either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom. It offers happiness, or it frustrates the pursuit. There is no half-love, half-religion, half-worship, half-belief, half-truth. There is no kinda-sorta. ~Tarek Saab

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes. Beauty, and the love and wonder and fascination it elicits, is an essential human need. It is not an ornament. ~Dr. Peter Kreeft

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. ~C.S. Lewis

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. ~St. Augustine

God created the world as a place of life and love, (Is 45:18) and created every person to be loved, and things to be used. But the devastating reality of sin ruptured this plan, and so persons are abused and material things are more loved. The consequent pain and sorrow, sickness and suffering, have caused much struggle for men and women. However, for the believer in Christ, there is great hope, and to the non-believer there is a great offer: the true Light of the world! This is the light that darkness has not, and will not ever overcome. (Jn 1:5) The Eucharist, Jesus Christ Himself, is that ongoing visible event of life, the ongoing incarnation at the heart of the Church, and we see that the Light has set his tent among us. (Jn 1:14) ~Archbishop Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

Whoever bids other folks to do right, but gives an evil example by acting the opposite way, is like a foolish weaver who weaves quickly with one hand and unravels the cloth just as quickly with the other. ~St. Thomas More

When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you then. When you look at the Sacred Host, you understand how much Jesus loves you now. ~Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

‎"As our union with the Lord grows and our prayer becomes more intense, we too come to focus on the essential and to understand that it is not the power of our own means that creates the Kingdom of God, but God who works miracles through our very weakness." Pope Benedict XVI, June 13, 2012

“The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says ‘Amen’ and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.” ~Frank Laubach

Our prayer is the prayer of Christ in us. ~Jean-Pierre Dubois-Dumee

“What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.” ~Catherine De Hueck Doherty

“You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds….What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can.” ~St. Thomas More

"Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life, which is short and has to be lived by you alone; and there is only one Glory, which is eternal. If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing. " ~St. Teresa of Avila

Silence is not simply negation but presence of the Beloved.

~Maria Boulding

You only learn to pray by praying. ~St. John Climacus

Prayer is not a burden, but a gift; it is not a constraint, but a freedom; it is not a millstone round your neck, but a source of joy. ~Bl. John Paul II

Your prayer is God's word of longing and love in you, God's breathing of the Spirit in you, to make you want the union he wants. ~Maria Boulding

Prayer is a conversation with a friend; and that includes knowing how to shut up and listen. ~St. Ignatius of Loyola

God often calls on us: but most of the time we are not at home. ~John Tauler

Let us pray that the Lord implant in us something he can make use of. ~Teilhard de Chardin

Trying to pray is praying. Never give up trying. ~Basil Cardinal Hume