Saintly Quotations

Encouragement and wisdom from the Saints

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Mother Teresa of Calcutta: Become a child in God's hands

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"Unless you become a little child . . . " I am sure you will understand beautifully everything if you would only "become...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Mother Teresa of Calcutta: Faith is a gospel of love

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Our holy faith is nothing but a gospel of love, revealing to us God's love for men and claiming in return man's love for God. -...

Mother Teresa of Calcutta: To see Christ in the poor

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We need the eyes of deep faith to see Christ in the broken body and dirty clothes under which the most beautiful One among the sons of men ...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Mother Teresa of Calcutta: Not called to be successful

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We do nothing. He does everything. All glory must be returned to Him. God has not called me to be successful. He called me to be faithf...

Mother Teresa of Calcutta: Faith is a gift of God

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Faith is a gift of God. Without it there would be no life. And our work, to be fruitful, and to be all for God, and to be beautiful, has to...
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Wednesday With St. Anthony of Padua

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Prayer Most Holy Trinity, one God, let me never forget your goodness. Help me to trust you more than I have ever done before. Pl...
Monday, November 4, 2013

Prayer of St. Ignatius of Loyola

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Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my whole will. You have given me all that I have, all that I am, and I surr...

St. Ignatius of Loyola Quotation for November 5, 2013

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Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. All other things on the face of the earth ...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

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

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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 w...

St. Therese of Lisieux: The Lord Cherishes Simplicity

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

St. Charles of Sezze: What God Commands

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God does not command us to live in hair shirts and chains, or to chastise our flesh with scourges, but to love Him above all things and o...

Saint Dwynwen: Cheerfulness Wins Hearts!

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Nothing wins hearts like cheerfulness. - Saint Dwynwen (d. 460)

St. Joseph Sebastian Pelczar Quotation

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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, becau...

Blessed Laura Vicuna: A Cheerful Attitude

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

Mother Teresa: Believe In God's Love More Than Your Weakness!!

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Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in yo...
Monday, October 14, 2013

Pope John Paul II: Suffering and Healing, A Double Lesson

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The Gospel often shows Jesus in the act of bending over sick people, to comfort them and also, not infrequently, to cure them.  The Red...
Friday, July 26, 2013

St. Pio of Pietrelcina: Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry!

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I want to be only a poor Friar who prays. Pray, hope and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayers. P...

St. Therese of Lisieux on Confidence in Jesus

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I am certain that even if I had on my conscience every imaginable crime, I should lose nothing of my confidence; rather I would hurry, wi...

Pope John Paul II: What Really Matters In Life

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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ , and that we love him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus , every...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

Thoughts from St. Faustina's Diary

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Most sweet Jesus, set on fire my love for You and transform me into Yourself. Divinize me that my deeds may be pleasing to You. May this ...
Friday, July 12, 2013

St. Francis de Sales: Tranquility

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It is necessary before all things to obtain tranquility, not because it is the mother of contentment, but because it is the daughter of t...

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

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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 cou...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Mother Teresa of Calcutta: Hunger

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There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that ma...

St. Bernard of Clairvaux: All God Desires

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For when God loves, all he desires is to be loved in return. The sole purpose of his love is to be loved, in the knowledge that those who...

Wisdom from St. Teresa of Avila

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Christ does not force our will; he only takes what we give him. But he does not give himself entirely until he sees that we yield ourselv...

Pope John Paul II: God's Love for Us Is Freely Given and Unearned

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God's love for us is freely given and unearned, surpassing all we could ever hope for or imagine. He does not love us because we have ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Pope John Paul II: Why?

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Human suffering is a continent that none of us have reached the borders of : yet, traversing the pavilions of this "Little House,...

Mother Teresa: The Kiss from the Cross

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Suffering has to come because if you look at the cross, he has got his head bending down - he wants to kiss you - and he has both hands o...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

A Number of St. Therese of Lisieux Quotes

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How often have I thought that I may owe all the graces I've received to the prayers of a person who begged them from God for me, and ...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Bl. Pope John XXIII: Discerning the Signs of the Times

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Blessed John XXIII (1881-1963), Pope Address for the opening of the Second Vatican Council    Discerning the signs of the times: an im...

Bl. Gaetano Errico Exhortation

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Let us kindle the love of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in the hearts of all people. - Bl. Gaetano Errico (1791-1860)
Sunday, June 9, 2013

St. Albert the Great Quotation

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An egg given during life for love of God is more profitable for eternity than a cathedral full of gold given after death. - St. Albert the ...

Mother Cabrini: Jesus Alone

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We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material success, nor on sciences that cloud the intellect. ...
Saturday, June 8, 2013

St. John of Kanty: Fighting Error

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Fight all error, but do it with good humor, patience, kindness, and love. Harshness will damage your own soul and spoil the best cause.  ...

Giving Pleasure to Jesus

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Let us give pleasure to Jesus; let us save souls for Him by our sacrifices. - St. Therese of Lisieux
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Sobering Words from Venerable Louis of Granada

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If all the calamities which have existed in the world since the creation and all the sufferings of hell were put into one side of a scale...

Live in Abandonment!

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Live in abandonment to God and in the hands of Mary Immaculate. - Blessed Eugenia Ravasco (1845-1900)
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