Only one medium should remain between any of us; Christ, the mediator between God and men, who is all things in all. It is He that we should always present to us, and it is in him that each of us should look for himself and his brother. We should seek each other and mutually behold each other in our origin, our cause, our principle.
St. Peter Favre
Consider for whom you labor, and those who strive to trouble you shall labor in vain.
St. Francis de Sales
Sciences are differentiated according to the various means through which knowledge is obtained. For the astronomer and the physicist both may prove the same conclusion: that the earth, for instance, is round: the astronomer by means of mathematics (i.e. abstracting from matter), but the physicist by means of matter itself. Hence there is no reason why those things which may be learned from philosophical science, so far as they can be known by natural reason, may not also be taught us by another science so far as they fall within revelation. Hence theology included in sacred doctrine differs in kind from that theology which is part of philosophy.
St. Thomas Aquinas
The vocation of a Priest! With what love, my Jesus, would I bear Thee in my hand, when my words brought Thee down from Heaven! With what love would I give Thee to souls! And yet, while longing to be a Priest, I admire and envy the humility of St. Francis of Assisi, and am drawn to imitate him by refusing the sublime dignity of the Priesthood. How reconcile these opposite tendencies?
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
O sorrowful Mother Mary, thou art great and sublime in Thy deep sorrow; for it has its source in the holy and ardent love of Thy Heart which knew no other love than the love of God. Ah, my beloved Mother, this love is so wanting in me. I would so gladly be attached with the most perfect love to Thy Divine Son, our Supreme Good.
I thank thee sincerely for the exalted example of the love of God which Thou hast given me in Thy unutterable sorrow; but the mere example will not be sufficient for me to attain a high degree of the love of God. For this I stand in need of a very great grace. What will heal the coldness of my heart and the dullness of my spirit, if grace does not do it? And who can more effectively pray for grace for me than Thou?
Remember, O most loving Mother, that Holy Church calls Thee the Mother of mercy. This mercy, however, becomes most glorified when thou dost apply it to poor sinners, who stand in great need of it. Trusting in thy goodness, thy clemency, and thy power, I cry to thee from the depth of my misery: have pity on me, O Mother of mercy, and do not grow weary of praying for me, until I shall have entered into the kingdom of eternal happiness.
Amen.
Amen