QUOTATION: Graces

Our Savior says, if you have not received the graces that you desire, do not complain to me, but blame yourself, because you have neglected to seek them from me.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori

QUOTATION: The Religious Life

All the helps afforded by the religious life share in the nobility of its end. All its graces are eminent. Only extraordinary graces are therein received. Everything in it elevates us to uncommon holiness, to eminent sanctity. In it we must be saints under penalty of being altogether unfaithful There is no middle course. Every religious is called to be a great saint, and the graces he receives are m proportion to this sublime vocation.

--St. Peter Julian Eymard

QUOTATION: Graces

God is more anxious to bestow His blessings on us than we are to receive them.

--St. Augustine

QUOTATION: Graces

How should Our Lord fail to grant His graces to him who asks for them from his heart, when He confers so many blessings even on those who do not call upon Him? Ah, He would not so urge, and almost force us to pray to Him, if He had not a most eager desire to bestow His graces on us.

--St. John Chrysostom

QUOTATION: The Blessed Sacrament

Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them.

-- St. Peter of Alcantara

QUOTATION: Graces

Wherefore I choke with grief, that when so many blessings are laid before us, we are slothful, and despise them; we use every exertion to have splendid houses here, but how to gain in heaven so much as a little resting-place, we care not, we think not.

--St. John Chrysostom