On the Power of Love... Thomas a Kempis

 

"Love is a strong force — a great good in every way; 

it alone can make our burdens light, and alone it bears in equal balance what is pleasing and displeasing. 

It carries a burden and does not feel it; 

it makes all that is bitter taste sweet. ...

 Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing higher, nothing stronger, nothing larger, nothing more joyful, nothing fuller, nothing better in heaven or on earth;

 for love is born of God and can find its rest only in God above all He has created.

 Such lovers fly high, run swiftly and rejoice. Their souls are free; they give all for all and have all in all. 

For they rest in One supreme Goodness above all things, from Whom all other good flows and proceeds. 

They look not only at the gifts, but at the Giver, Who is above all gifts."

TRUTH, Compliments of Archbishop Fulton Sheen

 

"There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things." Archbishop Fulton Sheen

On the Fate of the Church, by Cardinal Francis George

 Because I see this transition happening before our very eyes:

“I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his

 successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor

 will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help

 rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human

 history."