Saintly Quotations

Present tribulation is the way to glory – the way to the kingdom.   -St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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

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...

If you suffer thankfully your profit will increase in proportion to the greatness of what you suffer.   -...

Choose some particular saints that you may enter more deeply into their spirit and imitate them, and have a s...

God, who created all things, is in all places, and is everywhere to be worshiped. Yet his infinite wisdom thi...

"Unless you become a little child . . . " I am sure you will understand beautifully everything if you would only "become...

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. -...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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