St. Felix of Cantalice's chastity of the eyes

"He walked with his eyes cast down, but his heart was always raised to God by prayer. No objects seemed to turn his mind from heavenly things, because he restrained his eyes from curiosity or vanity, and considered God and His will in every thing...
He always preserved his purity unspotted both in mind and body, guarding it by the strict watchfulness over his sense, especially his eyes: and he never looked any woman in the face."
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol IV-VI, pg. 376

Ven. Fulton Sheen on youth and zealotry

"From the beginning of the early Church the Jews persecuted Christians, as is obvious in the Acts of the Apostles, and they would do the same even now, if they were able."

St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Galatians

"The old ancients, they used to sometimes read the entrails of birds to find out what the future was, Today we read the entrails of machines to discover what we ought to do."

Ven. Fulton Sheen, Life is Worth Living, Episode 94, Three Kinds of Proposals

If it is dangerous to be negligent in steering a ship in the midst of the sea, how much more perilous to abandon it in a storm with the waves running high; and even so the Church which makes its way through the ocean of this world like a great ship, buffeted in this life by diverse waves of temptation, is yet not to be abandoned.

St. Boniface of Mainz, Epistle to Archbishop Cuthbert of Canterbury VIII

"What can the world promise? Whatever it may promise, it promises to someone who will perhaps die tomorrow."

St. Augustine, In 1 John, Homily 3

"Being a Catholic will never prevent you from sinning. But I can tell you one thing: it will take all the fun out of it."

Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, A Catholic Catechism, Lesson 50: World, Soul, and Things

"The world is a spectacle that will soon be over."

St. Alphonsus Liguori

Ven. Fulton Sheen on the spiritual aspect of the debasement of architecture. (A Catholic Catechism, Lesson 25: Sacraments)

"Our enemies who expose our faults are more useful than friends who are afraid to reprove us."

St. Augustine, Letter 73, §4

"Glory follows virtue as its shadow; and deserting those who seek it, it seeks those who despise it."

St. Jerome, Letter 108, §3

"The holy and learned Jesuit, Father Suarez, was so deeply aware of the value of the Angelic Salutation that he said he would gladly give all his learning for the price of one Hail Mary well said."

St. Louis de Montfort, The Secret of the Rosary, 19th Rose

"To believe in the brotherhood of man without the Fatherhood of God would make men a race of bastards."

Ven. Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, Ch. 23

"In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin."

Sirach 7:40

"Nothing is more certain than death, but nothing more uncertain than the hour of death."

St. Alphonsus Liguori, Way of Salvation and of Perfection, Meditation XLVIII

"Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates also spoke of the Logos and of the Universal Wise Man 'yet to come'. Confucius spoke of 'the Saint'; the Sibyls, of a 'Universal King'; the Greek dramatist, of a saviour and redeemer to unloose man from the 'primal eldest curse'. All these were on the Gentile side of the expectation. What separates Christ from all men is that first He was expected; even the Gentiles had a longing for a deliverer, or redeemer. This fact alone distinguishes Him from all other religious leaders."

Ven. Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, Ch. 1

"Always keep current: know what the modern world is thinking about; read its poetry, its history, its literature; observe its architecture and its art; hear its music and its theater; and then plunge deeply into St. Thomas and the wisdom of the ancients and you will be able to refute its errors."

Cardinal Mercier's advice to the young Ven. Fulton Sheen, Treasure in Clay, Ch. 5