Quiet Moment

People say that the doctrine of transubstantiation is difficult to believe; I did not believe the doctrine until I was Catholic. I had no difficulty in believing it as soon as I believed that the Catholic Church was the oracle of God, and…

We shall steer safely through every storm so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. — St. Francis de Sales

My children, the three acts of faith, hope, and charity contain all the happiness of man upon the earth. — St. John Vianney

It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for “God is charity” (1 John 4:8). — St. Albert the…

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. — St. Teresa of Kolkata

I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so small. To me, space is an imperceptible object, as I am accustomed to dwell in eternity. — St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

I began to understand that the love of the sacred heart without a spirit of sacrifice is but empty illusion. — Bl. Maria Droste zu Vischering

Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind. — St. Catherine of Siena

No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ. — St. Leo the Great

It seems to me that I have found my heaven on earth, because my heaven is you, my God, and you are in my soul. — St. Elizabeth of the Trinity