No one at all can humbly read or think of the passion of our Lord… without reaping from this exercise fruit most useful for salvation; just as no one could touch flour or balm, even with the tips of his fingers, without having his fingers whitened with flour and perfumed with the odor of balm. Even if the image of Jesus crucified be only piously glanced at, the look will not have been in vain.
–Saint Louis de Blois (1506-1566)
Amongst all the marvels of the passion what we should most dwell upon is the unspeakable love with which Christ suffered for us, that we may love Him more and suffer with Him more sweetly. But chiefly that we may imitate Him, and be conformed to His image.
–Saint Louis de Blois (1506-1566)
The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we have nailed Him there and crucified Him; but the Love in His eternal heart could not be extinguished. He willed to give us the very life we slew; to give us the very Food we destroyed; to nourish us with the very Bread we buried, and the very Blood we poured forth. He made our very crime into a happy fault; He turned a Crucifixion into a Redemption; a Consecration into a Communion; a death into Life Everlasting
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
For me the way of the Cross has been the most beautiful of all because on this path I have met and known my Lord and Savior.
–Saint Maria Elisabetta Hesselblad (1870-1957)
Humility, obedience, meekness, and love are the virtues that shine through the Cross and the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar.
–Saint Anthony Mary Claret (1807-1870)
