QUOTATION: Faith

Faith is no comfortable path. Anyone who offers faith as a comfortable path will not succeed. It makes the highest demands of man, because it thinks highly of him. But precisely because it does this, it is beautiful and in keeping with our own being. If we see it in its whole magnitude and breadth, then it bears in itself the answers for which our hour of history is calling.

--Joseph Ratzinger, (Pope Benedict XVI)

QUOTATION: Chastity

Christ so loved chastity that he wished to be born of a virgin.

--St. Thomas Aquinas

QUOTATION: Straightening Out

I am but a crooked piece of iron, and have come into religion to be made straight by the hammer of mortification and penance.

 --St. Aloysius Gonzaga

QUOTATION: God Conquers in Failure

We expect God in His omnipotence to defeat injustice, evil, sin and suffering with a triumphant divine victory. Yet God shows us a humble victory that, in human terms, appears to be failure. We can say that God conquers in failure!

--Pope Francis, General Audience, April 16, 2014

QUOTATION: Hatred of Our Enemy

It is strange that we should not realize that no enemy could be more dangerous to us than the hatred with which we hate him, and that by our efforts we do less damage to our enemy than is wrought in our own heart.

--St. Augustine, Confessions, Book One, XVIII