David Given Schwarm

Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more. — Bl Fulton Sheen

Every fall, even if it be very grave and repeated, serves us always and only as a little step towards a higher perfection. — St Maximilian Kolbe

The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance in the next; the more we sorrow in the present, the greater will be our joy in the future. — St Isidore

Faith means battles; if there are no contests, it is because there are none who desire to contend. – St Ambrose of Milan

Wherever people are suffering, wherever they are humiliated by poverty or injustice, and where a mockery is made of their rights, make it your task to serve them. – St John Paul the Great

A Christian’s treasure is not on earth. It is in heaven. Well, then! Our thoughts must go where our treasure is. Man has a fine function: to pray and to love. You pray, you love: that is man’s happiness on earth! – St John Vianney