
“A love without criticism is a love without depth.”
-Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen

“A love without criticism is a love without depth.”
-Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen

“Every time you look at a cross, Christ seems to say to you, ‘I love you.’”
-Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen

"Jesus has chosen us for himself. We belong to him. Let us be so convinced of this belonging that we allow nothing, however small, to separate us from his love."
-St. Teresa of Calcutta

“When a person loves another dearly, he desires strongly to be close to the other: therefore, why be afraid to die? Death brings us to God!"
-St. Josephine Bakhita

Feast of the Martyrdom of St. John Baptist
“His persecutors had demanded not that he should deny Christ, but only that he should keep silent about the truth. But to endure temporal agonies for the sake of the truth was not a heavy burden for such men as John; rather it was easily borne and even desirable, for he knew eternal joy would be his reward.”
-St. Bede the Venerable on St. John the Baptist

Feast of St. Augustine (354 – 430)
“You have created us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless till they rest in you.”
-St. Augustine

Feast of St. Monica
“One thing only I ask you, that you remember me at the altar of the Lord wherever you may be.”
-St. Monica

“Nothing half-hearted for me–I will follow Christ with all my heart and soul.”
-St. Therese of Lisieux

Feast of St. Joseph Calasanz (1557 – 1648)
“Like the twigs of plants the young are easily influenced, as long as someone works to change their souls.”
-St. Joseph Calasanz
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