At his voice [while preaching], a crowd of sinners, weeping over their past iniquities, began a life of sincere penitence and repaired with edifying piety the scandals they had given to the world.

- St Vincent Ferrer: The Angel of Judgment by Fr Andrew Pradel

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.
It is better for you to enter into life maimed
than with two hands to go into Gehenna,
into the unquenchable fire.

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off.
It is better for you to enter into life crippled
than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna.

And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.
Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye
than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna,

where 'their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.'

- Mark 9:43-48

For the one who is least among all of you is the one who is the greatest.

- Luke 9:48b

The Church holds firmly that the four Gospels, "whose historicity she unhesitatingly affirms, faithfully hand on what Jesus, the Son of God, while he lived among men, really did and taught for their eternal salvation, until the day when he was taken up."

- Catechism of the Catholic Church 126

Prayer is a gift of grace but it always presupposes a determined response on our part because those who pray “battle” against themselves, their surroundings, and especially the Tempter who does all he can to turn them away from prayer. The battle of prayer is inseparable from progress in the spiritual life. We pray as we live because we live as we pray.

- Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church 572

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in Me.

- John 14:1

On arriving at any place, his first care was to visit the principal church, to pour forth his fervent supplications before the Blessed Sacrament and to commend to God his preaching.

- St Vincent Ferrer: The Angel of Judgment by Fr Andrew Pradel

But it was especially in prayer that the great apostle of the 15th century found his sublime ideas, his tender sentiments and that divine unction which inflamed his words. One of his listeners, being one day enraptured by the profound doctrine which he had expounded with as much clearness as warmth, asked him from what book he drew the marvelous erudition and original ideas of his discourses. Saint Vincent showed him the crucifix: “See,” he said, “The book whence I gather all that I preach and in which I study my sermons.”

- St Vincent Ferrer: The Angel of Judgment by Fr Andrew Pradel

[While on preaching missions later in life], notwithstanding the fatigues of the journey, the saint gave himself but little repose in the house where he abode. He continued his exercises in their accustomed order; he fasted, abstained, prayed and read the holy Scriptures
…

He constantly wore a hair shirt. Every night, before taking his collation, he disciplined himself to blood, and when too feeble to do this himself, he implored one of his companions, in the name of our Lord‘s passion, to render him that service and not to spare him. He allowed himself on the five hours sleep. His bed was ordinarily the hard ground for a few bundles of twigs; down, or a volume of the holy Scriptures, served him for a pillow.

- St Vincent Ferrer: The Angel of Judgment by Fr Andrew Pradel

We must remember God more often than we draw breath.

- St Gregory of Nazianzus

Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

- John 13:1b

God willed that we should receive all grace through Mary.

- St Bernard

It can be said that all the Saints are the work of the Blessed Virgin, and that a special devotion to her is their common characteristic.

- St Bernardine of Sienna

I hope everyone here does 3 things (aside from observing all 10 commandments):

1. Pray the rosary daily
2. Go to confession at least monthly
3. Come up with a cadence of spiritual reading. Many saints recommend a minimum of 15 minutes daily

4. If you want to go the extra mile - daily mass.

Don’t do it only for yourself - do it for the love of God and for the people around you who need to see the light of Christ.

Pick an accountability partner - a spiritual director or a friend - with whom you share your progress in resolving to improve.

Post in the comments if any of you would be interested in doing the divine office, a book club, lectio divina, or rosary in this channel daily or weekly

Why should we turn the other cheek? Because hate multiples like a seed. If one preaches hate and violence to ten men in a row, and tells the first to strike the second, and the second to strike the third, the hatred will envelop all ten. The only way to stop this hate is for one man to turn his other cheek. Then the hatred ends. It is never passed on. Absorb violence for the sake of the Savior, who will absorb sin and die for it. The Christian law is that the innocent shall suffer for the guilty. Thus Jesus would have us do away with adversaries, because when no resistance is offered, the adversary is conquered by a superior moral power.

- Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Life of Christ)

To be taken with love for a soul, God does not look on its greatness, but on the greatness of its humility.

- Sayings of Light and Love by St John of the Cross (103)