Catholic Quote by Josemaria Escriva

But all the great staining temptations, to selfishness, ambition, and other strong sins that violently affront the soul, appear first in the region of…

— Amy Carmichael

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Those who tread these paths should be informed of a matter respecting their confession in which they are apt to err. When they begin…

— Madame Guyon

Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous

— Andy Stanley

When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.

— William Hendriksen

This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that…

— Jeremy Taylor

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.

— Edith Stein

All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet…

— William Butler Yeats

Do not delay in coming to grace, but hasten, lest the robber outstrip you, lest the adulterer pass you by, lest the insatiate be…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and…

— William Butler Yeats

“After character becomes imbued with conscious principles of love, integrity, and faith, it opens the door for purity and holiness to converge at the…

— Gary Gordon

“Once you compromise your integrity, you make it easier to give in to temptation the next time.”

— Frank Sonnenberg