Even if we never see our mothers again, let’s be patient! We can offer it for the conversion of sinners. The worst thing would be if Our Lady never came back again! That is what hurts me most. But I offer this as well for sinners.

- Saint Francisco Marto of Fatima while in prison (around age 10)

The virtue of hope responds to the aspiration to happiness which God has placed in the heart of every man;

it takes up the hopes that inspire men's activities and purifies them so as to order them to the Kingdom of heaven;

it keeps man from discouragement;

it sustains him during times of abandonment;

it opens up his heart in expectation of eternal beatitude.

Buoyed up by hope, he is preserved from selfishness and led to the happiness that flows from charity.

- Catechism of the Catholic Church 1818

Sin is an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law (St. Augustine, Faust 22: PL 42, 418). It is an offense against God. It rises up against God in a disobedience contrary to the obedience of Christ.

- Catechism of the Catholic Church 1871

Sin is an act contrary to reason. It wounds man's nature and injures human solidarity.

- Catechism of the Catholic Church 1872

The Principle of Subsidiarity

A community of a higher order should not interfere with the life of a community of a lower order, taking over its functions,

but rather should support it in case of need and help to co-ordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society,

always in view of the common good.

- Catechism of the Catholic Church 1883

Society ought to promote the exercise of virtue... There is no solution to the social question apart from the Gospel

- Catechism of the Catholic Church 1895-1896

The duty of obedience requires all to give due honor to authority and to treat those who are charged to exercise it with respect, and, insofar as it is deserved, with gratitude and good-will...

- Catechism of the Catholic Church 1900

... A human law has the character of law to the extent that it accords with right reason, and thus derives from the eternal law. Insofar as it falls short of right reason it is said to be an unjust law, and thus has not so much the nature of law as of a kind of violence.

- Catechism of the Catholic Church 1902 quoting St Thomas Aquinas

Authority is exercised legitimately only when it seeks the common good of the group concerned and if it employs morally licit means to attain it.

If rulers were to enact unjust laws or take measures contrary to the moral order, such arrangements would not be binding in conscience.

In such a case, "authority breaks down completely and results in shameful abuse."

- Catechism of the Catholic Church 1903

One commits a mortal sin when there is simultaneously present: grave matter, full knowledge, and deliberate consent.

This sin destroys charity in us, deprived us of sanctifying Grace, and, if unrepented, leads us to the eternal death of hell.

It can be forgiven in the ordinary way of the sacraments of Baptism and of Penance or Reconciliation.

- Compendium, Catechism of the Catholic Church 395

The soul lives more where it loves than where it lives.

- St John of the Cross

In the course of the day, when it is not permitted you to do otherwise, call on Jesus, even in the midst of all of your occupations, with a resigned sigh of the soul and He will come and will remain always united with your soul by means of His grace and His holy love. Fly with your spirit before the tabernacle, when you cannot stand before it bodily, and there pour out the ardent longing of your soul and embrace the Beloved of souls, even more than if you had been permitted to receive him sacramentally.

- St Pio of Pietrelcina

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If you practice the holy exercise of spiritual Communion several times each day, within a month you will see your heart completely changed.

- St Leonard of Port Maurice

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The more I love You, the less I love You because I would like to love You more, but I cannot. Oh enlarge, enlarge my heart.

- St Frances Xavier Cabrini

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Those who have little to do must receive Communion often, since it is not inconvenient for them; the same also goes for those who have much to do, since then they have more need of it.

- St Francis de Sales

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Law is an ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the one who is in charge of the community.

- Catechism of the Catholic Church 1976 quoting St Thomas Aquinas

Do you want the Lord to give you many graces? Visit him often. Do you want Him to give you few graces? Visit Him rarely. Do you want the devil to attack you? Visit Jesus rarely in the Blessed Sacrament. Do you want him to flee from you? Visit Jesus often. Do you want to conquer the devil? Take refuge often at the foot of Jesus. Do you want to be conquered by the devil? Forget about visiting Jesus. My dear ones, the visit to the Blessed Sacrament is an extremely necessary way to conquer the devil. Therefore, go often to visit Jesus and the devil will not come out victorious against you.

- St John Bosco

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In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world.

- John 16:33