"Proclaim the message, insist on it in season and out of season, refute falsehood, correct error, call to obedience, but do all with patience and sound doctrine."
- Gospel antiphon, morning prayer, Memorial of Timothy and Titus
"Christ our Passover has been sacrificed; therefore let us keep the feast with the unleavened bread of purity and truth, Alleluia." - communion antiphon, Easter Sunday
“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves.” — Thomas Merton
“Liberation in the spirit of the Gospel is incompatible with hatred of one’s enemy as a person, but not with hatred of the evil that he does as an enemy.”
— CCC1933
“Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.” — G K Chesterton (The Everlasting Man)
"Peace is the tranquility of order." ---St Augustine
“Christ is now exalted above the heavens, but he still suffers on earth all the pain that we, the members of his body, have to bear. He showed this when he cried out from above: ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?’ "
- St Augustine, Office of readings for the Ascension
“Men are hopeless creatures, and the less they concentrate on their own sins, the more interested they become in the sins of others. They seek to criticize, not to correct.” ....
“We should be displeased with ourselves when we commit sin, for sin is displeasing to God. Sinful though we are, let us at least be like God in this, that we are displeased at what displeases him. In some measure then you will be in harmony with God’s will, because you find displeasing in yourself what is abhorrent to your Creator.” —St Augustine (Office, 14th Sunday)