QUOTATION: Suffering

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

--Pope Benedict XVI

QUOTATION: Love and Hate

Sometimes hatred is charming, while love must show itself severe.

--St. Augustine

QUOTATION: Suffering

You have to be careful with suffering. One has to be careful not to enjoy it, or focus on it, or expand it too much. Then suffering becomes the goal. The goal is not suffering; the goal is loving patience, offered to God as best one can. And the humility to admit that we don’t do this very well. One of the things I learned from my illness is that over and over again we have to tell God that we really trust Him. Trusting in God is not one action; it’s an ongoing way of life.

--Fr. Benedict Groeschel

QUOTATION: Vanity

The less beauty the soul has, the more it needs to decorate the body. Excessive luxury of dress and vain display of external beauty are signs of the nakedness of the soul.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

QUOTATION: Spiritual Courage

To acquire courage it is very useful to read the lives of the saints, especially of those who, after living in sin, attained great sanctity.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori