March 1

"Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggle increases."

-St. Rose of Lima

February 28

"Think of what the Saints have done for their neighbor because they loved God. But what Saint's love for God can match Mary's? She loved Him more in the first moment of her existence than all the Saints and angels ever loved Him or will love Him. Our Lady herself revealed to Sister Mary Crucified that the fire of her love was most extreme. If Heaven and earth were placed in it, they would be instantly consumed. And the ardors of the seraphim, compared with it, are like cool breezes. Just as there is not one among all the Blessed who loves God as Mary does, so there is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does. Furthermore, if we heaped together all the love that mothers have for their children, all the love of husbands and wives, all the love of all the angels and Saints for their clients, it could never equal Mary's love for even a single soul."

-St. Alphonsus Liguori

February 27

"Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked."

-Venerable Fulton Sheen

February 26

"Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: 'Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very often degrade it - leave all that and come with us in search of Love!'"

-St. Josemaria Escriva

February 25

"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."

-St. Teresa of  Calcutta

February 24

"To love God is something greater than to know Him."

-St. Thomas Aquinas

February 23

"There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and in the end the fullness of perfection."

-St. Gregory the Great

February 22

"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

-St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

February 21

"Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind."

-St. Catherine of Siena

February 20

"The things that we love tell us what we are."

-St. Thomas Aquinas