Saint Quotes

Nowhere other than looking at himself in the mirror of the Cross can man better understand how much he is worth. - St. Anthony of Padua

Fidelity in little things must be the basic rule in striving for holiness. - St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

I die with joy, for I desire to be united to my God. Live so as not to fear death. For those who live well in the world, death is not frightening, but sweet and precious. - St. Rose of Viterbo

Take heart, Jesus hears even the last echo of our pain. - St. Therese of Lisieux

Trials are nothing else than the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections. ~ St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi

Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all, make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection. - St. Benedict

Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’t look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything. -St. Catherine of Siena

When you say the Our Father, God's ear is next to your lips. - St. Andre Bessette

Without God, what am I but a guide to my own destruction. - St. Augustine

Nothing is far from God. - St. Monica

God asks little, but He gives much. - St. John Chrysostom

Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor. - St. Aelred of Rievaulx

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things. - St. Teresa of Avila

Faith and love are like the blind man's guides. They will lead you along a path unknown to you, to the place where God is hidden. - St. John of the Cross

There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons. - Ven. Fulton Sheen

An instant of pure love is more precious in the eyes of God and the soul, and more profitable to the Church, than all other good works together,... In the evening of life we will be judged on love alone. - St. John of the Cross

This labor of ours is brief, but the reward is eternal. - St. Clare of Assisi

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good. - St. Jerome

Should earthly creatures think you devoid of holiness, they rob you of nothing, and you are none the poorer: it is they who lose. - St. Therese of Lisieux

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. - St. Francis of Assisi

Great patience shows itself in two ways. Either when a man suffers great evils patiently, or when he suffers what he could avoid and forbears to avoid. - St. Thomas Aquinas