"Show mercy not only to yourselves, but also to him who, being in the higher position among you, is therefore in greater danger. But fraternal correction is a work of mercy. Therefore even prelates ought to be corrected." ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas #Saints #Quotes

"What tongue, human or angelic, may ever describe a power so immeasurable as that exercised by the simplest priest in Mass? Who could ever have imagined that the voice of man, which by nature hath not the power even to raise a straw from the ground, should obtain through grace a power so stupendous as to bring from Heaven to earth the Son of God?" ~ St. Leonard of Port Maurice #Quotes #Saints

"If our age in it's pride laughs at and rejects Our Lady’s Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of every age have most piously recited it but have also used it at all times as a most powerful weapon." ~ Pope Pius XI #Saints #Quotes

"Only if he is in love with Christ will the priest be able to teach his union, this intimate friendship with the divine Teacher to all, and be able to move people's hearts and open them to the Lord's merciful love. Only in this way, consequently, will he be able to instill enthusiasm and spiritual vitality in the communities the Lord entrusts to him." ~ Pope Benedict XVI #Saints #Quotes

"He who honors a priest honors Christ. He who insults a priest insults Christ." ~ St. John Chrysostom #Saints #Quotes

"Where is the road which leads us to Jesus Christ? It is before our eyes: it is the Church. It is our duty to recall to everyone, great and small, the absolute necessity we are under to have recourse to this Church in order to work out our eternal salvation." ~ Pope St. Pius X #Saints #Quotes

"Let the whole world tremble; let heaven exult when Christ, the Son of the Living God, is on the altar in the hands of the priest." ~ St. Francis of Assisi #Saints #Quotes

"Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same." ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori #Saints #Quotes

"Ours is the Spirit of the Eucharist, the total gift of self." ~ St. Katherine Drexel #Saints #Quotes

"The divine house which Joseph ruled with the authority of a father, contained within its limits the scarce-born Church." ~ Pope Leo XIII #Saints #Quotes

"If we had faith, we would see God hidden in the priest like a light behind glass, like wine mixed with water." ~St. John Marie Vianney #Saints #Quotes

“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.” ~ St. John Henry Cardinal Newman #Saints #Quote

“ Do not be ashamed to enter again into the Church. Be ashamed when you sin. Do not be ashamed when you repent. Pay attention to what the devil did to you. These are two things: sin and repentance. Sin is a wound; repentance is a medicine. Just as there are for the body wounds and medicines, so for the soul are sins and repentance. However, sin has the shame and repentance possesses the courage. ” ~ St. John Chyrsostom #Saints #Quotes

"The time he spends in prayer is the most important time in a priest’s life, in which divine grace acts with greater effectiveness, making his ministry fruitful. The first service to render to the community is prayer. And, therefore, time for prayer must be given true priority in our life… if we are not interiorly in communion with God, we cannot even give anything to others. Therefore, God is the first priority. We must always reserve the time necessary to be in commun

"As the shepherd, so the sheep; as the priest, so the people. Priest-victim leadership begets a holy Church. Every worldly priest hinders the growth of the Church; every saintly priest promotes it. If only all priests realized how their holiness makes the Church holy and how the Church begins to decline when the level of holiness among priests falls below that of the people!" ~ Ven. Fulton Sheen #Saints #Quotes

"Once, St. Teresa was overwhelmed with God’s Goodness and asked Our Lord “How can I thank you?” Our Lord replied, “ATTEND ONE MASS." ~St. Teresa of Avila #Saints #Quotes

"Without the priest, the passion and death of our Lord would be of no avail. It is the priest who continues the work of redemption here on earth." ~ St. John of Vianney #Saints #Quotes

"St. Ephrem says that the gift of the sacerdotal dignity surpasses all understanding. For us it is enough to know, that Jesus Christ has said that we should treat his priests as we would his own person." ~ St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori #Saints #Quotes

"The door to Heaven is the heart of Jesus. The key to this door is prayer and love." ~ Saint Andre Bessette #Saints #Quotes

"Becoming a priest or a man or woman religious is not primarily our own decision.... Rather it is the response to a call and to a call of love." ~ Pope Francis #Saints #Quotes