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“Prayer, in its widest sense, does four things: it adores, asks pardon, gives thanks, and begs for graces.”
― Vitalis Lehodey

“Intellect is the light which illuminates its path, and without this light, emotion changes back and forth. In fact, if emotions prevail over the intellect, it is able to obscure the light and distort the picture of the entire worldâ€�. Emotional stirrings need the control of reason and the direction of the will.”
― Edith Stein, Essays on Woman: 002;Collected Works of Edith Stein

“The Church is not something dead: it is the body of Christ endowed with supernatural life. As Christ, the Head and Exemplar, is not wholly in His visible human nature, which Photinians and Nestorians assert, nor wholly in the invisible divine nature, as the Monophysites hold, but is one, from and in both natures, visible and invisible; so the mystical body of Christ is the true Church, only because its visible parts draw
life and power from the supernatural gifts and other things whence spring their very nature and essence. But since the
Church is such by divine will and constitution, such it must uniformly remain to the end of time. If it did nor, then it would not have been founded as perpetual, and the end set before it would have been limited to some certain place and to
some certain period of time; both of which are contrary to the truth. The union consequently of visible and invisible
elements because it harmonizes with the natural order and by God's will belongs to the very essence of the Church, must
necessarily remain so long as the Church itself shall endure.”
― Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum: On the Unity of the Church

“Meekness is not what you think—it doesn’t mean being a spineless milquetoast or a coward, but quite the contrary. It is the most misunderstood of the virtues. There is, in fact, nothing weak about being meek. It is the woman of unique strength who, although she is clearly aware of adverse realities around her, is able to direct her emotions to an appropriate response in a difficult situation.”
― Carrie Gress, Ultimate Makeover: The Transforming Power of Motherhood