The source of man’s love for God
can only be found in the fact that God loved him first.
He has given us himself as the object of our love,
and he has also given us its source.

 
St. Augustine, 5th century

God, the Lord and maker of all things
has always been, and is, and will be:
kind, good, free from anger, truthful.
He, and he alone, is good.

 
Letter to Diognetus, 2nd century

Christ now looks down from heaven on our actions and secret thoughts,
and one day he will give each of us the reward his deeds deserve.

 
St. Thomas Becket, 12th century

God’s will is that no one should lose his soul,
that everyone should save and sanctify his soul.

 
St. Alphonsus Liguori, 18th century

On the Cross, Jesus died for each one of us.
The Cross, therefore, is the greatest and most eloquent sign
of his merciful love, the one sign of salvation
for every generation and for all humanity.

 
Servant of God, John Paul II, 20th century

We should think only of loving our Redeemer,
reflecting that it was love
which brought him to pour out all his blood,
to make for us a bath of salvation.

 
St. Alphonsus Liguori, 18th century

There is no one who has such compassion
as he who lays down his life for the condemned.

 
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 12th century

O Lord, the house of my soul is so narrow;
enlarge it that you may enter in.

 
St. Augustine, 5th century