In beautiful things St. Francis saw Beauty itself, and through His vestiges imprinted on creation he followed his Beloved everywhere, making from all things a ladder by which he could climb up and embrace...
Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection. (Saint Benedict, +543)
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. (Alexander Graham Bell, +1922)
There is one day for the passion of two apostles. But these two also were as one; although they suffered on different days, they were as one. Peter went first, Paul followed. We are...
For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church and every kind of grace (Saint Irenaeus of Lyons, +202-203)