QUOTATION: Confidence in God

The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive what you ask.

--St. Albert the Great

QUOTATION: What Christ Asks of You

What Christ asks of you is not sinlessness, but diligence.

--Blessed John Henry Newman, “Shrinking from Christ's Coming”, Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. 5

QUOTATION: Perseverance

Do not be surprised if you fall back into your old ways every day. Do not be disheartened, but resolve to do something positive about it; and, without question, the angel who stands guard over you will honor your perseverance.

--St John Climacus

QUOTATION: As Long as We're Alive

As long as we live, we fight, and as long as we are fighting, that is a sign that we are not defeated and that the good Spirit dwells within us. And if death does not meet you as the victor, he should find you a warrior.

--St. Augustine

QUOTATION: Perseverance in Prayer

If God does not always give us what we ask, it is to keep us near Him and to give us opportunity to urge Him.

--St Francis de Sales

QUOTATION: Persistence

The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.

--St. Albert the Great

QUOTATION: Perseverance

We must be careful not to omit our prayers, confession, communion, and other exercises of piety, even when we find no consolation in them.

--St. Vincent Ferrer

QUOTATION: Battle Scars in the Pro-Life Cause

A wise man once said that when we appear before the judgment seat of Jesus Christ, He will look at us very carefully and ask, `Where are your scars?’ If we respond we have no scars, He will then reproach us and say, `Was there nothing worth fighting for?’

I believe, my dear friends, there is something worth fighting for. The cause of life is worth fighting for, the cause of Christ is worth fighting for. Let us see to our duties and with resolution, determination, and defiance, go forward so that at the end, we can show to Christ our scars.

— Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz

QUOTATION: Joy

Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.

--St. Francis of Assisi

QUOTATION: Love of God and Salvation

He who does not acquire the love of God will scarcely persevere in the grace of God, for it is very difficult to renounce sin merely through fear of chastisement.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori

QUOTATION: Prayer, Perseverance, Obedience

He greatly deceives himself who thinks that prayer perfects one without perseverance and obedience.

--St. Francis de Sales, Letters to the Persons in Religion, 3:44.

QUOTATION: Perseverance

Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes within our power.

--St. Francis de Sales, Treatise on the Love of God, 3:4