Let us try to enter into the intentions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to infuse our hearts with the feelings that animated His when on earth—the glory of God by the cessation, or at least the diminuation of sin. Can our thoughts or desires find a more glorious object? One more worthy of our zeal? If to this is added the conversion of sinners, the thought alone excites the heart including as it does all those ills of human nature of which sin is the head and cause, the physical sufferings of sinners in time, the frightful eternity of infinite woe they cannot escape without repentance. If, again, from these general considerations, we pass to those which, among the mass of sinners enduring them, touch us more nearly, is it not impossible for us to help glowing with ardent desires of compassion and Christian charity?
Following Christ's example, then, we must sanctify ourselves to obtain the conversion and sanctification of our brethren then will sinners indeed repent—each offering of self will be a victory.
- Abbe Des Gennettes
If we wish to help our neighbors, we must reserve neither place, nor hour, nor season for ourselves.
- St. Philip Neri
Following Christ's example, then, we must sanctify ourselves to obtain the conversion and sanctification of our brethren then will sinners indeed repent—each offering of self will be a victory.
- Abbe Des Gennettes
If we wish to help our neighbors, we must reserve neither place, nor hour, nor season for ourselves.
- St. Philip Neri
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