Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Gregory Nazianzen

 

 

By the effective exercise of only one virtue, a person may attain to the height of all the rest.

-- Saint Gregory Nazianzen

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Jerome

 

 

Hence, I tearfully beg you to refrain from seeking the favors of the world and to renounce all that is carnal. It is impossible to follow both the world and Jesus. Let us live a life of renunciation, for our bodies will soon be dust and nothing else will last any longer.

-- Saint Jerome

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Irenaeus of Lyons

 

 

God is the source of all activity throughout creation. He cannot be seen or described in his own nature and in all his greatness by any of his creatures. Yet he is certainly not unknown. Through his Word the whole creation learns that there is one God the Father, who holds all things together and gives them their being. As it is written in the Gospel, "No man has ever seen God, except the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father; he has revealed him."

-- Saint Irenaeus of Lyons

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Ignatius of Loyola

We must always remind ourselves that we are pilgrims until we arrive at our heavenly homeland, and we must not let our affections delay us in the roadside inns and lands through which we pass, otherwise we will forget our destination and lose interest in our final goal.

-- Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Josemaria Escriva

In order to love and serve God, it is not necessary to do extraordinary things. Christ asks all men without exception to be perfect as His heavenly Father is perfect (cf. Mt 5: 48). For the great majority of men, to be holy consists of sanctifying their work, to sanctify themselves in their work, to sanctify others with work, and also to find God on the road of their life.

-- Saint Josemaria Escriva

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Francis Xavier

I have not stopped since the day I arrived. I conscientiously made the rounds of the villages. I bathed in the sacred waters all the children who had not yet been baptized. This means that I have purified a very large  number of children so young that, as the saying goes, they could not tell their right hand from their left. The older children would not let me say my Office or eat or sleep until I taught them one prayer or another. Then I began to understand: "The kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." 

-- Saint Francis Xavier from letters to Saint Ignatius Loyola

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Cyril of Jerusalem

 

 

It is not only among us, who are marked with the name of Christ, that the dignity of faith is great; all the business of the world, even of those outside the Church, is accomplished by faith. By faith, marriage laws join in union persons who were strangers to one another. By faith, agriculture is sustained; for a man does not endure the toil involved unless he believes he will reap a harvest. By faith, seafaring men, entrusting themselves to a tiny wooden craft, exchange the solid element of the land for the unstable motion of the waves. Not only among us does this hold true but also, as I have said, among those outside the fold. For though they do not accept the Scriptures but advance certain doctrines of their own, yet even these they receive on faith.

-- Saint Cyril of Jerusalem

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Peter Julian Eymund

 

 

Every time we come into the presence of the Eucharist we may say: This precious Testament cost Jesus Christ His life. For the Eucharist is a testament, a legacy which becomes valid only at the death of the testator. Our Lord thereby shows us His boundless love, for He Himself said there is no greater proof of love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.

-- Saint Peter Julian Eymund

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Athanasius the Great

 

 

In former times the blood of goats and the ashes of a calf were sprinkled on those who were unclean, but they were able to purify only the body. Now through the grace of God's Word everyone is made abundantly clean. If we follow Christ closely we shall be allowed, even on this earth, to stand as it were on the threshold of the heavenly Jerusalem, and enjoy the contemplation of that everlasting feast, like the blessed apostles, who in following the Savior as their leader, showed, and still show, the way to obtain the same gift from God.

 -- Saint Athanasius the Great

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

 

 

There is no more evident sign that anyone is a saint and of the number of the elect, than to see him leading a good life and at the same time a prey to desolation, suffering, and trials.

-- Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Francis of Assisi

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

-- Saint Francis of Assisi

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Jude the Apostle

 

 

To the one who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished and exultant, in the presence of His Glory, to the only God, Our Savior, through Jesus Christ Our Lord be glory, majesty, power, and authority from ages past, now, and for ages to come. Amen

-- Saint Jude the Apostle from The Epistle of Jude 1:24-25

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Catherine of Sienna

 

 

There is no sin or wrong that gives a man a foretaste of hell in this life as anger and impatience.

-- Saint Catherine of Sienna

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Teresa of Avila

When the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future!

-- Saint Teresa of Avila

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Emily de Vialar

 

 

Since God does so much for me, what could I not do for him?

 -- Saint Emily de Vialar

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Germaine Cousin

 

 

Dear God, please don't let me be too hungry or too thirsty. Help me to please my mother. And help me to please you.

-- prayer of Saint Germaine Cousin

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint John of the Cross

 

 

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

-- Saint John of the Cross

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Alphonsus Liguori

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 out of gratitude for so many gifts. 

 -- Saint Alphonsus Liguori  from a sermon

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Faith

 

 

I have from my infancy served Christ, and to him I have consecrated my whole soul.

-- Saint Faith

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Marcelino Champagnat

 

 

To educate a child....is to make him a good Christian and a good citizen.

-- Saint Marcelino Champagnat

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Boniface

 

 

Let us stand fast in what is right, and prepare our souls for trial. Let us wait upon God's strengthening aid and say to him: "O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations."

-- Saint Boniface

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Optatus of Mileve

You cannot deny that you know that in the city of Rome upon Peter first the chair of the bishop was conferred, in which sat the head of all the Apostles, Peter, whence also he was called Cephas, in which one chair unity should be preserved by all, lest the other Apostles should each stand up for his own chair, so that now he should be a schismatic and a sinner who should against this one chair set up another.

-- Saint Optatus of Mileve

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Saint Quote of the Day : Pope Saint Leo the Great

 

 

For all, regenerated in Christ, are made kings by the sign of the cross. They are consecrated priests by the oil of the Holy Spirit, so that beyond the special service of our ministry as priests, all spiritual and mature Christians know that they are a royal race and are sharers in the office of the priesthood.

-- Pope Saint Leo the Great