"The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who so loves His Mother."

St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort

Before speaking of anyone else, we should recollect ourselves in prayer; for if we remain docile to the Holy Spirit we will be all the more certain of doing the truth in love. He who is truly at peace is suspicious of no one. It will often be better to keep silence rather than dwell on matters that are frivolous or cannot be proved, or on defects that are already being corrected.

Statutes of the Carthusian Order

Want of urbanity effects no good and affability does no evil. The priest who is rough with people does injury to himself and to others; he sins, at least in ignorance, against charity, patience, poverty, humility and self-denial. He scandalizes all who see him and hear him. Hundreds of souls turn away him, from God and from religion. Thousands reject the Church and the sacraments and perish in eternity solely because they have been badly treated by a priest.

A long experience has taught me the great lesson that God leads men in a human manner by other men whom he appointed to be in His place and who should be of the same kindness as he himself was while on earth. Many a soul might be gained for the true faith and eternal life if sometimes a little more charity, a little more self-denial would be evinced, and if persons would be treated as their personal dispositions and human nature would require. It is true that it requires great virtue and experience to find always the right measure in these things, but we cannot fail much if our intention remains pure.

Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, C.Ss.R.

"By His divine virtue or by the gift of the Holy Spirit He is the efficient and universal cause of all grace. His humanity is the instrument of the divinity. It effects in souls that increase of the supernatural life which transforms them and enables them to present to the eyes of the Father the true image of His incarnate Son. Christ acts through the sacraments, but He acts also apart from them; prayer, the contemplation of His mysteries, humility, and love in all its forms, prepare the soul for His action upon it."

Blessed Columba Marmion, Christ--The Ideal of the Priest

"How great the dignity of the soul, since each one has from his birth an angel commissioned to guard it."

-- St. Jerome