ST. ELIZABETH ANN SETON
When [the cross] comes in the shape of poverty, it conceals eternal treasures…. When our Savior offers His cross in any way, it is Himself.

     We need not go to church to make this communion of suffering, our Saviour comes to find us wherever we may be… We are never strong enough to bear our cross, it is the cross which carries us, nor so weak as to be unable to bear it since the weakest become strong by its virtue.

Begin again today; what is lost must not cause dejection; what is gained will be lost if you do not begin afresh as if nothing had been done.

ST. LOUISE DE MARILLAC
Listen to [Jesus], O my soul, as if He were speaking to you alone, ‘I thirst for your faithful love.’” He does not address His Father. He does not ask for something to drink. He simply cries out, ‘I thirst.’

Let us try to bear the contradictions and repugnance we meet with in the exercise of our duty. Our actions become that much more agreeable to God.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
Always, the hand of God is outstretched for those who wish to clasp it.

We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ.