"Be attentive, dearly beloved priests, for the devils tempt one priest more than a hundred seculars; because a priest that is lost brings with him many seculars to hell. St. Chrysostom says, " To take away the shepherds is to scatter the flocks." ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori #Saints #Quotes

"A priest is one who makes Christ visible. The people see Christ in the saintly priests and they seek even to touch his robes as they did the robes of Christ. Children come to him without fear; non-Catholics give to them a reverence which they rarely give to others. The sure measure by which a priest draws souls to Christ is also the means by which he can drive souls from Christ." ~ Ven. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen #Saints #Quotes

"It is the priest who continues the work of redemption on earth." ~ St. John Marie Vianney #Saints #Quotes

"Every vocation to the priesthood comes from the Heart of God but it passes through the heart of a mother." ~ St. Pius X #Quotes #Saints

"Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor." ~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux #Saints #Quotes

"O wonderful the dignity of priests; in whose hands the Son of God is made flesh as in the womb of the Virgin." ~ St. Augustine #Saints #Quotes

"One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ... than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office." ~ Dietrich von Hildebrand #Saints #Quotes

"No human tongue can enumerate the favors that trace back to the Sacrifice of the Mass. The sinner is reconciled with God; the just man becomes more upright; sins are wiped away; vices are uprooted; virtue and merit increases; and the devil’s schemes are frustrated." ~ St. Lawrence Justinian #Saints #Quotes

"Dear John, you have taken the priestly habit and I am as happy as any mother could be. But never forget that it is not the habit that matters, but the effort to progress in virtue. If you ever come to have doubts about your vocation, be sure you never dishonor that priestly garb. Put it aside immediately. I would rather a poor peasant son than a priest who neglected his sacred calling." ~ Ven. Mama Margaret to her son St. John Bosco #Saints #Quotes

"The difference between parents and priests is as great as the difference between the present life and the future life. The former produce children for this life, the latter for the other life." ~ St John Chrysostom #Saints #Quotes

"Know, O Christian, that the Mass is the holiest act of religion. You cannot do anything to glorify God more, nor profit your soul more, than by devoutly assisting at it, and assisting as often as possible." ~ St. Peter Julian Eymard #Saints #Quotes

"The Eucharist is the Sacrament of love; it signifies love; it produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life." ~ St. Thomas Aquinas #Saints #Quotes

"Put all the good works in the world against one Holy Mass; they will be as a grain of sand beside a mountain." ~ St. John Marie Vianney #Saints #Quotes

"The Holy Mass would be of greater profit if people had it offered in their lifetime, rather than having it celebrated for the relief of their souls after death." ~ Pope Benedict XV #Saints #Quotes

"O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers, carries it to her hive; so the Priest, having taken the Saviour, God's Own Son, Who came down from Heaven, the Son of Mary, Who sprang up as earth's choicest flower, from the Altar, feeds you with that Bread of Sweetness and of all delight." ~ St. Francis of Sales #Saints #Quotes

"The Liturgy is not about you and I... The Liturgy is first and foremost about God and what He has done for us." ~ Cardinal Sarah #Saints #Quotes

"The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council had very clearly in mind this "thirst for the truth" that burns in every human heart when they said that it is the task of priests "as instructors of the people in the faith" to see to the "formation of a genuine Christian community" ~ Pope Benedict XVI #Saints #Quotes

"[Lord,] grant me the conversion of my parish; I am willing to suffer whatever you wish, for my entire life!" ~ St. John Marie Vianney #Saints #Quotes

"The Mass is the best and most beautiful thing in the Church... That is why the devil has always sought to deprive the world of the Mass through the action of heretics, making them precursors of the antichrist." ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori #Saints #Quotes

“The end for which God has instituted the priesthood has been to appoint on earth public persons to watch over the honor of his divine majesty, and to procure the salvation of souls.” ~ St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori #Saints #Quotes