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"I am but a crooked piece of iron and have come into religion to be made straight by the hammer of mortification and penance."

                                                                        -St. Aloysius Gonzaga

"I could not be happy without the Cross - I could not lay it down for all the world would give. With the Cross I am happy; but without it would be lost."

                                                --Blessed Mary of the Cross MacKillop

"Meditate often on the sorrows of the holy Mother, sorrows inseparable from those of her beloved Son. If you seek the Cross, there you will find the Mother and where the Mother is, there also is the Son."

                                                                        -St. Paul of the Cross

"We should not wish for anything but what comes to us from moment to moment, exercising ourselves nonetheless for good."

 -St. Catherine of Genoa

"The great women always recall us to the deeper needs and the greater destinies; and so they try to save the world from the shallow, the slick, the facile, and the cruel, and to show us that the world of men is not meant to be either a battlefield or a laboratory, but a family."

                                                                                    --Gerald Vann, O. P.

"Give up prayer, and you no longer see the inwardness of things; you see only the surface. And with nothing to go by but effects, statistics, and evidence supplied by natural perceptions, you arrive at the wrong conclusions."

                                                                        -Dom Hubert Van Zeller

"Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages."

-St. Francis de Sales