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 'Show me clearly that when you tell me that such and such an inspiration exists in your conscience, you are not telling a lie. You say that you feel this persuasion within you. But why am I bound to believe you? Is your word so powerful that I am forced under its authority to believe that you think and feel what you say. . . Show me clearly that these inspirations that you pretend to have are of the Holy Spirit. Who knows not that the spirit of darkness very often appears in clothing of light?'

St. Francis de Sales

"The Scriptures," says S. Jerome, (Adv. Lucif. 28.) "consist not in the reading but in the understanding:" that is, faith is not in the knowing the words but the sense. And it is here that I think I have thoroughly proved that we have need of another rule for our faith, besides the rule of Holy Scripture.'

St. Francis de Sales

Archbishop Honorius of Canterbury gave St. Paulinus refuge when he fled Caedwalla of Wales after the demise of King Edwin.

'A blessing on the man who puts his trust in the Lord, with the Lord for his hope. He is like a tree by the waterside that thrusts its roots to the stream: when the heat comes it feels no alarm, its foliage stays green; it has no worries in a year of drought, and never ceases to bear fruit.'

Jeremias 17:7-8

'Be meek and gentle, affable and charitable towards your neighbor; but do not give him what you owe to the Sacred Heart of our Lord.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

In his Life of St. Willibrord, Alcuin writes that Wilgils, called a paterfamilias, had founded an oratory and church at the mouth of the Humber.

He frequently repeated the words of the Saviour, "He is My brother and My friend who does the will of My Father."

'My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my precepts. For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life and peace.'

Proverbs 3:1-2

'Bury all your misery in the mercy of the loving Heart of Jesus and think of nothing but of pleasing Him by forgetting self. Henceforth let Him do all that He wills in you, with you and for you.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

'Avoid every kind of singularity, for it is generally the hot-bed of pride, especially spiritual pride.'

St. Philip Neri