Saintly Quotations

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfe...

The world's thy ship and not thy home. - St. Therese of Lisieux

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

A most powerful and efficacious remedy for all evils, a means of correcting all imperfections, of triumphing over tem...

You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones. - St. Augustine of Hippo

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.    - St. Francis of Assisi        

I do everything for God, and in this way I lose nothing, and I'm always well repaid for the trouble I go to for other people.  ...

How great the dignity of the soul, since each one has from his birth an angel commissioned to guard it. - St. Jerome

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather we must be simple, humble and pure. We should never desire to be over othe...

Our Lord died on the Cross in agony, and yet this is the most beautiful death of love. To die of love is not to die in transports.  ...

Oh my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understa...

Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured out for us in the sacrament of...

I rejoice my dearest son, in your devoted good will regarding both your generous almsgiving and your gentle rule. All this surely pleases G...

The Apostle affirms that “no man can say the Lord Jesus but by the Holy Ghost,” and “there is none that doth good, no not one.” Whosoever, ...

He who enters into the secret place of his own soul passes beyond himself and truly ascends to God.  Therefore, banish from your heart ...

Imagine yourselves to be spiritual beggars in the presence of God and his saints. You should go round from saint to saint, imploring an alm...

Be assured that you are not alone. God is never far from those who suffer. If you know how to find him, then you will experience him. The...

Be cheerful! Jesus will take care of everything. Let us pay no attention to people who do not know what they are talking about. Let us tr...

Jesus offers you the cross, a very heavy cross, and you are afraid of not being able to carry it without giving way. Why? Our Beloved H...

Let's continue to be strenuous in pursuing virtue. Let's not grow tired of seeking it, for our Lord has become a guide for us and...

Remember the goodness of the Lord in his treatment of you up until now. He will continue his work of perfection to your benefit. He will ...

The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly, to do it ...

Jesus is honey on the lips, melody in the ear, joy in the heart. Yet not alone is that name light and food. It is also a remedy. Is any...

God accepts our desires as though they were of great value. He longs ardently for us to desire and love him. He accepts our petitions for...

Virgin Immaculate, perfect lover of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, we ask you to obtain for us the graces we need to become true ador...

Faith in action is love and love in action is service - therefore "the way of life" is but the fruit of faith - faith has to be p...

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...