We should bear in mind and realize
that when we call God our Father, we ought also to act like sons.
If we are pleased to call him Father,
let him in turn be pleased to call us sons.

 
St. Cyprian, 3rd century

It is not that we think to make God holy by our prayers;
rather, we are asking God that his name may be made holy
in us.

 
St. Cyprian, 3rd century

You won’t sin unless you want to,
provided that you trust not in your own powers
but in the assistance of God.
He does not refuse help
to those who ask it with a lively faith.

 
St. Leonard of Port Maurice, 18th century

Those who practice prayer should seek in all things
to conform their will to the will of God.
The one that practices it in the most perfect manner
shall receive from God the greatest gifts.

 
St. Teresa of Avila, 16th century

The debt for which the Lord has pardoned us
is always infinitely greater
than all the debts that others can owe us.

 
His Holiness, Benedict XVI

Our obligation is to do God’s will, and not our own.
We must remember this
if the prayer that the Lord commanded us to say daily
is to have any meaning on our lips.

 
St. Cyprian, 3rd century

It is not hard to obey
when we love the one whom we obey.

 
St. Ignatius of Loyola, 16th century

We must learn the great lesson of forgiveness:
we must not let the gnawings of resentment work in our soul,
but must open our hearts to the magnanimity of listening to others,
open our hearts to understanding them,
eventually to accepting their apologies, and generously offering our own.

 
His Holiness, Benedict XVI