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“It is a great advantage for us to be able to consult someone who knows us, so that we may learn to know ourselves.”
― Teresa of Ávila, Interior Castle

“The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.”
― Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God

“Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when my shoulders lean against Yours, make me feel Your scourging; when my flesh is united with Yours, in the Holy Eucharist, make me feel Your passion; when my head comes near Yours, make me feel Your thorns; when my heart is close to Yours, make me feel Your spear.”
― St. Gemma Galgani

“Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.”
― Richard John Neuhaus, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile

“Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.”
― Pope John Paul II

“But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a Christian than there is between the humility of a lover and the rapacity of a lover. The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy. There never was a man in love who did not declare that, if he strained every nerve to breaking, he was going to have his desire. And there never was a man in love who did not declare also that he ought not to have it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

“Every time I think about that girl, my mind commits a sin.”
― Jake Vander Ark, The Accidental Siren

“I've never seen a naked torso that wasn't on a cross, at least not so close up. I don't know where to look. His belly button. Belly button. Look at the belly button. ”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“In fact, according to physicians, the functioning of the digestion depends less on the brain than on hormonal mechanisms and autoregulators. However, during a fast, the digestive system gets an increasing rest. About ten hours after a meal, the contractions stop and the feeling of hunger disappears; five or six hours later the glucose stops coming directly from the intestines and begins to produce itself from the reserve of glycogen contained in the liver. From then on, the body works on itself in a closed circuit, becoming itself the source of the energy it uses. Instead of destroying an appropriating to himself nourishment taken from outside, man enters a state of nonviolence and detachment relative to the outside world.”
― Adalbert De Vogue, AIMER LE JEÛNE

“a criminal sketch of Christ
on a diner napkin
-'Poet Prophets”
― Amber Koneval, Drunk Dialing the Divine

“If the attitude of many non-Catholic modern philosophers toward Catholic thought could be summarized in a single sentence, it would be: It has been tried, it has produced its definitive results, which have been found lacking, and now its time is past”
― Gregory B. Sadler

“Because of this, I feel I am performing a work of love, not of hostility. I do not aim to accuse the contemporary world and monasticism but to enrich the world with the values that monasticism can and should contribute to it. Our world needs monks who are different from itself. Please God, this essay will help them to sing more clearly and beautifully the part they have to sing in the immense symphony of the present time.

To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience
(prologue)”
― Adalbert de Vogue monk of La Pierre-qui-Vire