One of the things which we must be very firm about, if we are to please our Lord, is to cast far from us everything that could remove us from the love of our brethren. We should make every effort to love them with a tender charity, for Supreme Truth has said: “This is how all will know you are my disciples, etc.” (John 13:35)
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
All is love’s, and in love, for love, and of love, in the holy Church.
— Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
If we are sincerely seeking Christ, we will find Him through the Church He founded.
–Randy Hain (June 19, 2014)
Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. The Catholic Church has for one of her chief duties that of preventing people from making those old mistakes; from making them over and over again forever, as people always do if they are left to themselves… There is no other case of one continuous intelligent institution that has been thinking about thinking for two thousand years.
–GK Chesterton (1874-1936)
The children of this world are all separated one from another because their hearts are in different places; but the children of God whose hearts are where their treasure is (see Lk 12:34) and who all have the same treasure – which is the same God – are consequently always bound and united together.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Do you wish to know which is the true church of Christ? Count those priests who, in a regular succession have succeeded Saint Peter, who is the Rock, which the gates of hell will not prevail.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
