HUMILITY has been regarded by the Saints as the basis and guardian of all virtues. - Saint Alphonsus Liguori - 1696-1787 - 

THERE is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in the knowledge in the world. - Saint Teresa of Avila - 1515-1582 -

YOU and I aspire to great things? Begin with little ones. You desire to erect a very high building? Think first of the foundation of humility. The higher one intends it, the deeper must the foundations be laid. - Saint Augustine of Hippo - 354-430 -

HUMILITY - THE key which opens all the treasures of God. - Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier - 1796-1868 -

THE only virtue no devil or the evil one can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons. - Saint John Climacus (d. 649) -

        -   Even the possession of every virtue is of no avail if we have not acquire humility   -

IF we possessed every virtue but lacked humility, those virtues would be without root and would not last. - Saint Vincent de Paul - 1580-1660 -

We must never glance at what is good in ourselves, much less ponder over it but we should search out what is wrong and what is lacking. This is an excellent way of remaining humble. - Saint Vincent de Paul - 1580-1660 -

BELIEVE that others are better than you in the depths of their souls, although outwardly you may appear better than they. - Saint Augustine of Hippo - 354-430 -

IN truth, the soul can possess no better insight for knowledge than to perceive its own nothingness. - Saint Angela of Foligno - d. 1312 - 

We must never glance at what is good in ourselves, much less ponder over it, but we should search out what is wrong and what is lacking. This is an excellent way of remaining humble. - Saint Vincent de Paul - 1580 -1660 -

BELIEVE that others are better than you in the depths of their souls, although outwardly you may appear better than they. - Saint Augustine of Hippo - 354-430 -

WE must never glance at what is good in ourselves, much less ponder over it, but we should search out what is wrong and what is lacking. - Saint Vincent de Paul - 1580-1660 -

We often say that we are nothing. But we would be very sorry if anyone should take us at our word. We pretend to retire and hide ourselves, so that the world may run after us and seek us out. True humility does not make a show of herself or use many humble words; for she desires not only to conceal all other virtues but most of all to conceal herself. - Saint Francis de Sales - 1567-1622 -

THAT person is truly humble who converts humiliation into humility. - Saint Bernard - 1090-1153 -

HOWEVER great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he/she must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He/She ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself/herself merely as a tool which God has made use of. - Saint Vincent de Paul 1580-1660 -

CERTAINLY nothing can so effectually humble us before the mercy of God as the multitude of His benefits. Nor can anything so much humble us before His justice as the enormity of our innumerable offences. Let us consider what He has done for us and what we have done against Him. - Saint Francis de Sales - 1567-1622 -

REMEMBER that Jesus Christ, referring to the humility of the publican, said that his prayer was heard. If this was said of a man whose life was evil, what may we not hope for if we are really humble? - Saint Vincent de Paul - 1580-1660 -

                    - Our Lord Jesus Christ manifests His Truth only to the humble -

A SOUL which exalts itself abases God; but a soul which abases itself exalts God. - Saint Augustine of Hippo - 354-430 -

PRIDE is an illusion, a lie and a theft. Since it is a truth of faith that we are nothing, he/she who esteems himself/herself and thinks that he/she is someone is a seducer who deceives himself/herself. - Saint John Eudes - 1601-1680 - 

PRIDE make us forgetful of our eternal interests. It causes us to neglect totally the care of our soul. - Saint John Baptist de la Salle - 1651-1719 -

YOU must ask God to give you power to fight against this sin of pride which is your greatest enemy - the root of all that is evil. The failure of all that is good. For God resists the proud. - Saint Vincent de Paul - 1580-1660 -

It is by humility that the Lord Jesus allows Himself to be conquered, so that He will do all we ask of Him. - Saint Teresa of Avila - 1515-1582 - 

To be plunged in humility is to plunged in God - Blessed John Ruysbroeck - 1293-1381 -

THERE is something in humility that strangely exalts the heart. - Saint Augustine of Hippo - 354-430 -

LET us not deceive ourselves. If we have not got humility, we have nothing. - Saint Vincent de Paul - 1580-1660 -

JESUS is the teacher of holiness. I go to Him because I want Him to teach me how to become a Saint. Of what use to me is all I learn in school if I do not become holy? - Saint Francis de Sales (in boyhood) - 1567-1622 -

A young Saint expressed the same thought after her first Holy Communion - I CAN no longer live without Jesus. How soon shall I receive Him again? - Saint Maria Goretti - 1890-1902 -

- The following were the resolutions of Saint Dominic Savio when he was barely twelve years of age -

WHEN I want something important, I go to Holy Mass/Holy Communion, where I receive the same Body that our Lord Jesus offered up for us on the Cross, together with His Precious Blood, His Soul and His Divinity. What more is wanting to complete my happiness until the day when I shall see face to face Him whom I now see on our altars only with the eye of faith? - Saint Dominic Savio - 1842-1857 -

WHEN I am at all worried, I go to my confessor who shows me what is God's Will; for Jesus Christ Himself assures us that he speaks with the Voice of God. - Saint Dominic Savio - 1842-1857 - 

I WILL go to Confession and to Holy Communion often. I will keep holy the feast days. Jesus will be my best friend. And I will rather die than commit sin. - Saint Dominic Savio - 1842-1857 - 

IF I do not become a Saint, I am doing nothing. - Saint Dominic Savio - 1842-1857 - 

           - Holiness and happiness go hand in hand, as Saint Dominic Savio discovered -

OUR Lord needs from us neither extraordinary deeds, nor exaggerated thoughts. Neither false talents and intelligence. He cherishes simplicity. - Saint Therese of Lisieux - 1837-1897 -

HAVE love in your hearts but repress the tendency to appear devout. - Saint Mary Mazzarello - 1837-1881 -

I Do not mean by this that you should be occupied from morning till night without some creation. You should be able to find enjoyment in useful hobbies and also take pleasure in the study of history and geography, the arts and science too. - Saint John Bosco - 1815-1888 - 

KEEP this well in mind. Never read books, internet news and information that you are not sure about or those which are not really suitable for your age. Even supposing these bad books/internet are very well written from a literary point of view, let me ask you this: would you drink something you knew was poisoned just because it was offered to you in a golden cup? - Saint John Bosco - 1815-1888 -

No matter how good food is, if poison is mixed with it, it may cause the death of him/her who eats it. So it is with conversation/reading. A single bad or nasty word/sentence, an evil action, an unbecoming joke, is often enough to harm one or more young listeners and adults alike, and may later on, cause them to lose God's grace. - Saint John Bosco - 1815-1888 -

                           - Scandal is something that should be avoided at all costs. - 

HE gives scandal who by word or deed gives occasion to others to offend God. Scandal is a terrible sin, because it robs God of the souls which He created for Heaven, and redeemed with the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ: and it delivers them into the hands of the devil. Guard yourself well from this danger and run away from it as you would run away from the devil himself. - Saint John Bosco - 1815-1888 -

Saint Dominic Savio did not hesitate to rebuke his companions, to snatch away the indecent papers from their hands to hurry them away from the man/woman who was trying to corrupt them. "Let him be your inspiration, realizing that you have the same means to make you courageous in doing good as he had." - Saint John Bosco - 1815-1888 -

CONQUER yourself and the world lies at your feet. - Saint Augustine of Hippo - 354-430 -

Wishing you, 'Happy Reading', and may God, the Father, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ, fills your heart, mind, thoughts, and grants you: The Holy Spirit, that is, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel, Piety, Fortitude, Fear of the Lord, and also His fruits of the Holy Spirit, that is, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Trustfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. Amen! God blessing be upon you!

Why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord" and not do what I say?' "Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and acts on them - I will show you what he/she is like. He/She is like a man/woman who when he/she built his/her house dug, deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man/woman who built his/her house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!" - Luke 6:46-49 - 

If we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow in all ways into Christ Jesus, who is the head by whom the whole body is fitted and joined together, every joint adding its own strength, for each separate part to work according to it function. So the body grows until it has built itself up, in love." - Ephesians 4:15-16 - 

I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the spirit of truth comes, he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself, but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He/She will glorify me, since all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine." - John 16:12-15 -