“If they be faithful and seek no satisfaction in creatures, they pass from pure suffering to the pure love of God.” This reflects the idea that detachment leads to deeper love for God. St. Paul of the Cross

“God doesn’t ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.” This quote emphasizes the importance. St. Teresa of Calcutta

“Do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.” This encourages maintaining peace amidst life’s challenges through detachment. St. Francis de Sales

“True love is found only in complete self-forgetfulness, and it is only after we have detached ourselves from every creature that we find Jesus.” This quote underscores the connection between detachment and finding true love in God. St. Therese of Lisieux

“Perfection consists in renouncing ourselves, in carrying our cross, and in following Jesus Christ.” This emphasizes that detachment is essential for spiritual perfection and following Christ. St. Vincent de Paul

“Oh! happy is he who can say, ‘I have despised the kingdom of the world, and all the glory of the time, for the love of my Lord Jesus Christ.’” This reflects the joy found in detachment from worldly glory for the sake of divine love. St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

“Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal. But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal.” Matthew 6

“Be brave and try to detach your heart from worldly things.” ~St John Bosco

“If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them.” ~St John of the Cross

“Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it.” ~St Maximos the Confessor

“How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such vanities, flying to the Saviour’s Cross, and clasping His Crown of thorns to your heart, so that these little foxes may not spoil your vines.” ~St Frances de Sales.

“It is a reasonable consequence, that he who runs after perishable goods should himself perish.” ~St Teresa of Avila

“Let us suppose that someone’s house or field has caught fire. The person who wanted to save himself fled without anything as soon as he noticed the fire, leaving everything in it and concerned only with his own life. But someone else thought he would take some of the goods with him, so he stayed behind to collect them; and as he was taking them the fire, which had already overwhelmed the house, caught him as well and burnt him. In this way, through his attachment to some transient thing, he was destroyed in the fire by his own free choice.” ~St. Symeon Metaphrastis

“For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection; and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.” ~St John of the Cross

“Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.” ~Saint Alphonsus Liguori

“Jesus does not want us to be attached to possessions, to human honors, to creatures. He asks humility. But His love and His generosity make this detachment less difficult and less cruel to our nature. Nothing else matters to me anymore, nothing has any value for me but Jesus, no place, no thing, no person, no idea, no feeling, no honor, no suffering, nothing that can turn me away from Jesus. For me, Jesus Himself is my honor, my delight, my heart, my spirit, He whom I love, what I love, my home Heaven here on earth. Jesus is my treasure and my love and Jesus crucified is my only happiness.” ~St. Bernadette Soubirous

Detachment is a withdrawal from all evil desires. – St. John Climacus

Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them. – St. Philip Neri