Do not let yourself be seduced by temporal things.
Try rather, to gain what is eternal.
Limit yourself in using the goods of life.

 
St. Gregory of Nyssa, 4th century

Let us strive for purity of heart, poverty of spirit,
and for the character of little children,
and we will be threefold blessed.

 
Bl. Peter Favre, 16th century

You must open the eyes of your soul on the light,
on this heaven within you, a vast horizen
stretching far beyond the realm of human activity,
an unexplored country to the majority of human beings.

 
St. Vincent Ferrer, 14th century

When the ever blessed Virgin spoke her 'Fiat' (yes),
it was the beginning of the Kingdom of God on earth
and she was the first handmaid.

 
St. Edith Stein, 20th century

Christ, Himself,
is the resurrection because in him we rise again;
so also the Kingdom of God may be understood to be Christ,
because in him we shall reign.

 
St. Cyprian of Carthage, 3rd century

A child is a pledge of immortality,
for he bears upon him in figure those high
and eternal excellences in which the joy of heaven exists.

 
Bl. John Henry Newman, 19th century