Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Ursula Ledóchowska

 

 

 

Holiness does not demand anything great, beyond the ability of the person. It depends on God’s Love; every daily act can be transformed into an act of love.

 -- Saint Ursula Ledóchowska

Saint Quote : Saint Thomas More

 

 

When death comes, and we stand before God, no king can command Him, no authority can restrain Him, no riches can hire Him to wait past his appointed time even one monent of an hour. Therefore let us speak what we are bound to speak and do the deeds we are called to do. No empty time is allowed to any of us.

-- Saint Thomas More

Saint Quote : Saint Gerard Majella

 

 

Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?

-- Saint Gerard Majella

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Saint Quote : Saint Rose of Lima

 

 

If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.

-- Saint Rose of Lima

Saint Quote : Saint Andrew Avellino

 

 

One cannot separate the most Holy Eucharist from the Passion of Jesus.

-- Saint Andrew Avellino

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Polycarp of Smyrna

 

 

Stand fast, therefore, in this conduct and follow the example of the Lord, 'firm and unchangeable in faith, lovers of the brotherhood, loving each other, united in truth,' helping each other with the mildness of the Lord, despising no man.

-- Saint Polycarp of Smyrna, Letter to the Philippians

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Peter the Apostle

 

 

Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence, keeping your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who defame your good conduct in Christ may themselves be put to shame.

 -- Saint Peter the Apostle

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Peter Damian

Let us faithfully transmit to posterity the example of virtue which we have received from our forefathers.                           

-- Saint Peter Damian

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Marie Victoire Therese Couderc

Let me live by love, let me die of love, and let my last heartbeat be an act of the most perfect love. 

-- Saint Marie Victoire Therese Couderc

Saint Quote : Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

The Sacred Heart of Christ is an inexhaustible fountain and its sole desire is to pour itself out into the hearts of the humble so as to free them and prepare them to lead lives according to His good pleasure.

-- Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

Saint Quote : Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

 

 

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material success; nor on sciences that cloud the intellect. Neither does it depend on arms and human industries, but on Jesus alone.

-- Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

Saint Quote : Saint Teresa of Avila

 

 

All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding his life we find that he is the best example.

--Saint Teresa of Avila

Saint Quote : Saint Jeanne de Chantal

 

 

Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

-- Saint Jeanne de Chantal

Saint Quote : Saint Mark the Ascetic

 

 

When Scripture says, ‘He will reward every man according to his works’ (Matthew 16:27), do not imagine that works in themselves merit either hell or the Kingdom. On the contrary, Christ rewards each man according to whether his works are done with faith or without faith in Himself; and He is not a dealer bound by contract, but God our Creator and Redeemer.

-- Saint Mark the Ascetic

Saint Quote : Saint Augustine of Hippo

 

 

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

-- Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Peter Chrysologus

 

 

Listen to the Lord's appeal: In me, I want you to see your own body, your members, your heart, your bones, your blood. You may fear what is divine, but why not love what is human? You may run away from me as the Lord, but why not run to me as your father? Perhaps you are filled with shame for causing my bitter passion. Do not be afraid. This cross inflicts a mortal injury, not on me, but on death. These nails no longer pain me, but only deepen your love for me. I do not cry out because of these wounds, but through them I draw you into my heart. My body was stretched on the cross as a symbol, not of how much I suffered, but of my all-embracing love. I count it no less to shed my blood: it is the price I have paid for your ransom. Come, then, return to me and learn to know me as your father, who repays good for evil, love for injury, and boundless charity for piercing wounds.

--Saint Peter Chrysologus

Saint Quote : Saint Ignatius Loyola

 

 

He is generous even to exhaustion; and what is most wonderful is, that He gives Himself thus entirely, not once only, but every day, if we wish it. Every fresh Communion is a new gift which Jesus Christ makes of Himself.

-- Saint Ignatius Loyola

Saint Quote : Saint Bernadette of Lourdes

 

 

Nothing is anything more to me; everything is nothing to me, but Jesus: neither things nor persons, neither ideas nor emotions, neither honor nor sufferings. Jesus is for me honor, delight, heart and soul.

-- Saint Bernadette of Lourdes

Saint Quote : Saint Alphonsus Liguori

 

 

All holiness and perfection of soul lies in our love for Jesus Christ our God, who is our redeemer and our supreme good.

Has not God in fact won for himself a claim on all our love? From all eternity he has loved us. And it is in this vein that he speaks to us: "O man, consider carefully that I first loved you. You had not yet appeared in the light of day, not did the world yet exist, but already I loved you. From all eternity I have loved you."

Since God knew that man is enticed by favors, he wished to bind him to his love by means of his gifts: I want to catch men with the snares, those chains of love in which they allow themselves to be entrapped, so that they will love me. And all the gifts which he bestowed on man were given to this end. He gave him a soul, made in his likeness. He endowed him with memory, intellect and will; he gave him a body equipped with the senses. It was for him that he created heaven and earth and such an abundance of things. He made all these things out of love for man, so that all creation might serve man, and man in turn might love God our of gratitude for so many gifts.

But he did not wish to give us only beautiful creatures; the truth is that to win for himself our love, he went so far as to bestow upon us the fullness of himself. The eternal Father went so far as to give us his only Son. When he saw that we were all dead through sin and deprived of his grace, what did he do? He sent his beloved Son to make reparation for us and to call us back to a sinless life.

-- Saint Alphonsus Liguori from a sermon  

Saint Quote : Saint Miguel Febres Cordero Muñoz

 

 

The heart is rich when it is content, and it is always content when its desires are fixed on God.

-- Saint Miguel Febres Cordero Muñoz

Saint Quote : Saint Jerome Emiliani

I urge you to persevere in your love for Christ and your faithful observance of the law of Christ.

Our Goal is God, the source of all good. As we say in our prayer, we are to place our trust in God and in no one else. In his kindness, our Lord wished to strengthen your faith, for without it, as the evangelist points out, Christ could not have performed many of his miracles. He also wished to listen to your prayer, and so he ordained that you experience poverty, distress, abandonment, weariness and scorn.

God alone knows the reasons for all this, yet we can recognize three causes. In the first place, our blessed Lord is telling you that he desires to include you among his beloved sons, provided that you remain steadfast in his ways, for this is the way he treats his friends and makes them holy.

The second reason is that he is asking you to grow continuously in your confidence in him alone and not in others.

Now there is a third reason. God wishes to test you like gold in the furnace. The dross is consumed by the fire, but the pure gold remains and its value increases. It is in this manner than God acts with his good servant, who puts his hope in him and remains unshaken in times of distress. God raises him up and, in return for the things he has left out of love for God, he repays him a hundredfold in this life and with eternal life hereafter.

If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and for ever in the next.


-- Saint Jerome Emiliani from a letter to his brothers

Saint Quote : Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort

If we do not risk anything for God we will never do anything great for Him.

-- Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort in a letter

Saint Quote : Saint Paul Miki

 

 

The only reason for my being killed is that I have taught the doctrine of Christ. I thank God it is for this reason that I die. I believe that I am telling the truth before I die. I know you believe me and I want to say to you all once again: Ask Christ to help you become happy. I obey Christ. After Christ's example, I forgive my persecutors. I do not hate them. I ask God to have pity on all, and I hope my blood will fall on my fellow men as a fruitful rain.

-- Saint Paul Miki

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Saint Quote : Saint Agatha

 

Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am - you alone. I am your sheep; make me worthy to overcome the devil.

--Saint Agatha

Saint Quote : Saint Aelred

 

 

One who speaks the word of God to others ought not aim at vaunting his own knowledge but at discerning how he can build up his hearers. And with a motherly compassion for weaker minds he ought, I might say,  prattle to them, descending to the use of baby talk. But the limit of my gifts make it necessary that my hearers stoop down to the poverty of my words.

 --Saint Aelred

Saint Quote: Saint Joseph of Leonissa

 

 

Every Christian must be a living book wherein one can read the teaching of the gospel. This is what Saint Paul says to the Corinthians, 'Clearly you are a letter of Christ which I have delivered, a letter written not with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh in the heart' (2 Corinthians 3:3). Our heart is the parchment; through my ministry the Holy Spirit is the writer because 'my tongue is nimble as the pen of a skillful scribe'(Psalms 45:2).

-- from a sermon by Saint Joseph of Leonissa

Saint Quote : Saint John Vianney

 

 

Prayer is nothing else but union with God. In this intimate union, God and the soul are fused together like two bits of wax that no one can ever pull apart. This union of God with a tiny creature is a lovely thing. It is a happiness beyond understanding.

--Saint John Vianney

Saint Quote : Saint Thomas More

 

 

The Devil never runs upon a man to seize him with his claws until he sees him on the ground, already having fallen by his own will.

-- Saint Thomas More