St. Therese of Lisieux: Not Always Faithful

It is true I am not always faithful, but I never lose courage. I leave myself in the Arms of Our Lord. 

– St. Therese of Lisieux

St. Therese of Lisieux: Love, Not Fear!

Your soul is called to raise itself to God by the elevator of love and not to climb the rough stairway of fear. 

- St. Therese of Lisieux

St. Therese of Lisieux: Who the Lord Calls

He does not call those who are worthy but those whom He pleases.

- St. Therese of Lisieux

St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi: Sweet Silence

If you do not practice sweet silence, it is impossible to taste the things of God.

- St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi

St. Therese of Lisieux: God's Timing

I realize better than ever before how tender and merciful Our Lord is;  He has sent me this cross when I am capable of bearing it,  whereas before I should have given way to discouragement. 

– St. Therese of Lisieux

St. Francis de Sales: Have Patience

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. 

 

- St. Francis de Sales

 

 

St. Therese of Lisieux: Not Your Home

The world's thy ship and not thy home.

- St. Therese of Lisieux

St. Thomas Aquinas: God Alone!

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

- St. Thomas Aquinas

St. Vincent de Paul: A Powerful Remedy For All Evils

A most powerful and efficacious remedy for all evils, a means of correcting all imperfections, of triumphing over temptation, and preserving our hearts in an undisturbed peace, is conformity with the will of God. 

- St. Vincent de Paul

  

St. Augustine: Great Things?

You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.

- St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Bernard of Clairvaux: The Way to the Kingdom

Present tribulation is the way to glory – the way to the kingdom.  

-St. Bernard of Clairvaux

St. Bernard of Clairvaux on Suffering

We must begin with patience and detachment, and at last we shall learn to love the sufferings which liken us to the Passion of our Redeemer.  

- St. Bernard of Clairvaux 

St. Teresa of Avila about St. Joseph

I do not remember to this day ever having asked St. Joseph for anything that he did not grant me... I wish that I could persuade everyone to venerate this glorious saint, for I have great experience of the blessings that he obtains from God... he gives very real help to the souls who commend themselves to him.
- St. Teresa of Avila

St. Augustine about Saints

God, who created all things, is in all places, and is everywhere to be worshiped. Yet his infinite wisdom thinks fit to work wonders at the intercession of his saints.  

- St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Anthony of Egypt: Things That Make the Devil Afraid

The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He is also afraid when we are humble and good. He is especially afraid when we love Jesus very much. He runs away when we make the Sign of the Cross.

- St. Anthony of Egypt (251-356)

St. Therese of Lisieux: The Lord Cherishes Simplicity

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

- St. Therese of Lisieux

St. Joseph Sebastian Pelczar Quotation

One of the most ardent desires of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is that his Most Holy Mother be venerated and loved by all:  firstly, because the Lord himself has ineffable love for her, and then because he made her the mother of all men, so that with her sweetness she might attract to herself even those who flee the Holy Cross, and bring them to the Divine Heart.

- St. Joseph Sebastian Pelczar

Blessed Laura Vicuna: A Cheerful Attitude

A cheerful attitude will sustain you in all your difficulties, trials and sufferings in life.

- Blessed Laura Vicuna 

St. Francis de Sales: Tranquility

It is necessary before all things to obtain tranquility, not because it is the mother of contentment, but because it is the daughter of the love of God and of the resignation of our own will.

- Saint Francis de Sales

Wisdom from St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

God is there in these moments of rest and can give us in a single instant exactly what we need. Then the rest of the day can take its course, under the same effort and strain, perhaps, but in peace.

- Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)