The School
I believe that God calls everyone to be a student in the school of saints.
Saint School is my state in life. As a college student, this is a heightened reality. As a student at a Catholic university, it is enhanced.
Cry out, young university students, by witnessing to your faith! Do not be satisfied with a mediocre life without spiritual enthusiasm that is bent only upon achieving your own immediate personal advantage.
– Pope John Paul II, Servant of God
Address to University Students, ROME, 2001
Interior life. We need it, if we are to answer the call that the Master has made to each and every one of us. We have to become saints, as they say in my part of the world, ‘down to the last whisker,’ Christians who are truly and genuinely such, the kind that could be canonized. If not, we shall have failed as disciples of the one and only Master.
–Saint Jose Maria Escriva
Friends of God, 5
I now bear within me day and night the adorable Eucharist. I must therefore be always recollected and cultivate the interior life.
–Saint Anthony Mary Claret
Autobiography