March 29

"I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors' defects-not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues."

-Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

March 28

“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”

-St. Augustine

March 27

“You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”

-Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

March 26

“Fasting is a medicine.”

-St. John Chrysostom

March 25

“We do not become perfect by the multiplication of exercises, penances, and austerities, but rather by the purity of love with which we do them.”

-St. Francis de Sales

March 24

"Our only desire and our one choice should be this: I want and I choose what better leads to God's deepening life in me."

-St. Ignatius Loyola

March 23

“One cannot desire freedom from the cross when one is especially chosen for the cross.”

-St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

March 22

"Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring."

-St. Catherine of Siena

March 21

“To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.”

-Pope St. Gregory I

March 20

“Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.”

-St. Rose of Lima