Catholic Wisdom

"Perfection consists in leading captive our own will and in playing king over it."

—Saint Philip Neri, Maxims and Counsels.

"Saint Francis de Sales, that great Saint, would leave off only half-formed writing a single letter of a word in order to reply to the needs of others."

—Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, On mortifying self-will, in Catechisms of the Holy Curé of Ars, 1927.