Saint Quotes
Saint Quote of the day
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.
The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.
What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers.
When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.
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 because it is his will.
Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.
We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.
Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can
Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.
You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.
We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.
If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.
And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.
There will be no sickness for the saint of God. ... If your body belongs to God, it does not and cannot belong to sickness.
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.
Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.
You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.
Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.
To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts
A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who wants to come to it, whether this be a man, a woman, a child, or an animal.
But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.
It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?
If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.
My hope is in you, Lord. Be my refuge, for You are my strength.... Into Your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, Lord, God of Truth.
