None of us would dare to use that title in our prayers
unless He himself had told us that we might.

 
St. Thomas Aquinas, 13th century

Humility in our daily lives, an unwavering faith,
a moral sense of modesty in conversation, justice in acts, mercy in deed,
discipline, refusal to harm others, a readiness to suffer harm,
peaceableness with our neighbor, a wholehearted love of the Lord;
this is what it means to do the will of the Father.

 
St. Cyprian, 3rd century

This leads to heaven: to put out of our minds
the harm done us by our enemies in order to master our anger,
and to forgive other's sins against us.
Then our own sins against the Lord will be forgiven us.

 
St. John Chrysostom, 4th century

Much more is accomplished
by a single word of the Our Father said,
now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer
repeated many times in haste and without attention.

 
St. Teresa of Avila, 16th century

In our prayer we pray that God's will be done in us,
because the devil throws up obstacles to prevent our mind
and our conduct from obeying God in all things.

 
St. Cyprian, 3rd century

God's fatherhood is more real than human fatherhood
because he is the ultimate source of our being;
because he has thought and willed us from all eternity;
because he gives us our true paternal home, which is eternal.

 
His Holiness, Benedict XVI

Christ Himself, is the Kingdom of God, whom day by day,
we desire to come.

 
St. Cyprian of Carthage, 3rd century

The devil unsettles the minds of all,
preying on our anxieties, searching into our dispositions;
seeking opportunities of causing evil
where he sees each one to be most vulnerable.
Christians must remain ever watchful.

 
St. Leo the Great, 5th century