Saintly Quotations

Encouragement and wisdom from the Saints

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

St. Teresa of Calcutta: No Time to Enjoy

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I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life. We ...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

St. Thomas Aquinas on True Satisfaction

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When your glory is seen, I shall be satisfied It is fitting that the end of all our desires, namely eternal life coincides with the w...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

St. Therese on the Key to Her Vocation

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Charity gave me the key to my vocation. I understood that the Church being a body composed of different members, the most essential, the mo...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

St. Therese of Lisieux: Who the Lord Calls

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He does not call those who are worthy but those whom He pleases. - St. Therese of Lisieux

St. Therese of Lisieux: Confidence Works Miracles

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When we do not give up praying, confidence works miracles. - St. Therese of Lisieux
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi: Sweet Silence

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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

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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,  wherea...

Mother Teresa of Calcutta: Why faith is lacking

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Faith is lacking because there is so much selfishness and so much gain only for self. But faith, to be true, has to be a giving love. Love ...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

St. Francis de Sales: Have Patience

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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfe...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

St. Therese of Lisieux: Not Your Home

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The world's thy ship and not thy home. - St. Therese of Lisieux
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

St. Thomas Aquinas: God Alone!

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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely. - St. Thomas Aquinas ...
Monday, June 22, 2015

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

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

St. Augustine: Great Things?

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You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones. - St. Augustine of Hippo
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

St. Francis of Assisi: Darkness and Light

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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.    - St. Francis of Assisi        
Thursday, November 20, 2014

St. Therese: Do Everything for God!

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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.  ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

St. Jerome: The Dignity of the Soul

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How great the dignity of the soul, since each one has from his birth an angel commissioned to guard it. - St. Jerome
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

St. Francis of Assisi: We Must Be Simple, Humble, Pure

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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...
Monday, November 17, 2014

St. Therese of Lisieux Quotation: Dying of Love

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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.  ...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

St. Teresa of Avila: Paid in Troubles!

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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...

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque on Prayer

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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...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

St. Alcuin Quotation, November 10, 2014

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I rejoice my dearest son, in your devoted good will regarding both your generous almsgiving and your gentle rule. All this surely pleases G...
Monday, November 3, 2014

St. Francis of Assisi: Avoid the Sin of Envy!

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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, ...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

St. Albert the Great: Withdraw From The Distractions of Earth

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

St. Philip Neri: Saints

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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...
Saturday, November 1, 2014

St. John Paul II: God Is Never Far From Those Who Suffer

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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...

St. Pio of Pietrelcina: Be Cheerful!

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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...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

St. Therese of Lisieux: Heavy Crosses and Being Afraid

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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...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

St. Athanasius: Let's Seek Virtue Strenuously!

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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...

St. Pio of Pietrelcina: Give the Lord Your Heart!

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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 ...

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton: Doing God's Will

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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 ...

St. Bernard of Clairvaux: The Most Holy Name of Jesus

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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...

Saint Gregory of Nazianzen: God Accepts Our Desires!

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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...

Prayer of St. Peter Julian Eymard

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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...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Mother Teresa of Calcutta: Fruit of faith

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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...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

St. Bernard of Clairvaux: The Way to the Kingdom

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

St. Bernard of Clairvaux on Suffering

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We must begin with patience and detachment, and at last we shall learn to love the sufferings which liken us ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

St. Teresa of Avila about St. Joseph

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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...

St. John Chrysostom: Suffering Thankfully Profits Us

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

St. Francis de Sales: Choose Some Saints

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

St. Augustine about Saints

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