"He was a baby and a child, so that you may be a perfect man. He was wrapped in saddling cloths so that you be freed from the snares of death. He was in a manger so that you may be in the altar. He was on earth that you may be in the stars. He had no other place in the inn so that you may have many mansions in the heavens. “He, being rich, became poor for your sakes that through His poverty you might be rich”. (2 Cor 8:9) Therefore His poverty is our inheritance, and the Lord’s weakness is our virture. He chose to lack for Himself that He may abound for all. The sobs of that appalling infancy cleanse me, those tears wash away my sins. Therefore, Lord Jesus, I owe more to your sufferings because I was redeemed than I do to works for which I was created…. You see that He is in swaddling clothes. You do not see that He is in heaven. You hear the cries of an infant, but you do not hear the lowing of an ox recognizing its Master, for the ox knows his Owner and the donkey his Master’s crib. [Exposition of the Gospel of Luke 2.41-42]" - St. Ambrose

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"Save souls for Jesus, so that He may be loved!" - St. Therese

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“Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did.”
– St.Maximilian Kolbe

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“The poverty of Christ is richer than all the treasures of the world.”

— St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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“In my deepest wound I saw Your glory, and it astounded me.”

— St Augustine

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"Love is not synonymous with undifferentiated approval of everything the beloved person thinks and does in real life… . [nor is it] the wish for the beloved to feel good always and in every situation and for him to be spared experiencing pain or grief in all circumstances. “Mere ‘kindness’ which tolerates anything except [the beloved’s] suffering” has nothing to do with real love… . No lover can look on easily when he sees the one he loves preferring convenience to the good." - Josef Pieper, Faith, Hope, Love

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“To be a servant of Christ is to be truly free.”

— Saint Agatha

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“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time - waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God - it changes me.”

— C.S. Lewis

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“Begin to fulfill the commandments relating to small things, and you will come to fulfill the commandments relating to great things; everywhere small things lead to great things. Begin by fulfilling the commandment of fasting on Wednesdays and Fridays, or the tenth commandment relating to evil thought and desires, and you will eventually learn to fulfill all the commandments. He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much.”

— St. John of Kronstadt
From the book “My Life in Christ”

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The rest of that St. Augustine quote:

Late have I loved you,

Beauty so ancient and so new,

late have I loved you!

Lo, you were within,

but I outside, seeking there for you,

and upon the shapely things you have made

I rushed headlong,

I, misshapen.

You were with me but I was not with you.

They held me back far from you,

those things which would have no being

were they not in you.

You called, shouted, broke through my deafness;

you flared, blazed, banished my blindness;

you lavished your fragrance,

I gasped, and now I pant for you;

I tasted you, and I hunger and thirst;

you touched me, and I burned for your peace.

—Augustine Confessions X.27

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“Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize that you know before whom you kneel.”

— St. Maximilian Kolbe

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