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

Someone asked Him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” He said to them,

“Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.”

- Luke 13:23-24

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were unwilling!

- Luke 13:34

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure, and rest in him.

- Sayings of Light and Love by St John of the Cross (70)

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For Jesus Christ I am prepared to suffer still more.

- St Maximillian Kolbe

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Married love is the nursery of Christianity. It supplies the earth with faithful souls to fill up the number of elect in heaven. Hence the preservation of holy marriage is of the highest importance to the state for it is the origin and source of all that flows from the state.

- St. Francis de Sales

Whenever any difficulty presented itself [in Holy Scripture], and especially in passages that were most obscure, he was accustomed to ask of Jesus, as his heavenly master, that intelligence and light of which he stood in need. He frequently raised his eyes from his books and fix them lovingly on the wounds of his crucified Lord; for some moment he would draw from that source of ineffable sweetness the delights which inundated his soul and immediately afterwards resume his reading. At other times, leaving his desk and casting himself on his knees, he poured forth to heaven and ardent prayer with sighs and lamentations, beseeching God to infuse into his soul new flames of love. He this passed from study to prayer, and from prayer to study, and each of these occupations developed at the same time his science and piety.

- From “St Vincent Ferrer” by Fr Andrew Pradel

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“Nada de turbe” / “Let Nothing Trouble You”

Nada te turbe,
nada te espante,
todo se pasa,
Dios no se muda.
La paciencia todo lo alcanza
quien a Dios tiene
nada le falta:
sólo Dios basta. 

Let nothing trouble you;
let nothing frighten you;
everything passes away,
but God does not.
[Through] patience
you will obtain everything;
whoever has God is lacking nothing:
only God is enough.

- St Teresa of Avila

The people complained against God and Moses,

“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!”

In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents, which bit the people so that many of them died.
Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned in complaining against the LORD and you. Pray the LORD to take the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people,

- Numbers 4:5-7