Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

Anselm (Theologian, 1033 – 1109)

I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.

Anselm (Theologian, 1033 – 1109)

Strive to be faithful to that which God has called you.

Angela of Merici (Educator, 1474 – 1540)

Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand.

Angela of Merici (Educator, 1474 – 1540)

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.

Angela of Merici (Educator, 1474 – 1540)

True repentance is to cease from sin.

Ambrose (Bishop of Milan, 374 – 397)

The devil’s snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil’s bait.

Ambrose (Bishop of Milan, 374 – 397)

The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.

Ambrose (Bishop of Milan, 374 – 397)

And let them remember that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that God and man may talk together; for “we speak to Him when we pray; we hear Him when we read the divine saying.”

Ambrose (Bishop of Milan, 374 – 397)

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Ambrose (Bishop of Milan, 374 – 397)