Better to pray one psalm with devotion than a hundred with distraction (Saint Romuauld, +1027)
Quotes
If you put all the love of the mothers into one heart it still would not equal the love of the Heart of Mary for her children.” – Saint Louis de Montfort
Devotion to the Most Sacred Heart is the extraordinary remedy for the extraordinary needs of our time.” (Pope Pius XI, 1928)
Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how gloriously beautiful must he be who made them! The wisdom of the worker is revealed in his handiwork. (Saint Anthony of Padua, +1231)
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us. (Saint John Vianney)
The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course. (Saint Boniface, +754)
These African martyrs herald the dawn of a new age. If only the mind of man might be directed not towards persecutions and religious conflicts but towards a rebirth of Christianity and civilisation! (Pope Saint Paul VI, canonization homily)
No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false. (Saint Justin, Martyr, +165)
Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it’s[…]
Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful! Enkindle in them the fire of Thy love! Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created – and Thou shalt renew the face of the earth. +