Saint Ephraem of Syria Quote

Whoever is wakeful and prayerful in the night, in this visible darkness he is surrounded by an invisible light.

-- Saint Ephraem of Syria

Saint Augustine of Hippo Quote

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out

of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

-- Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Catherine of Siena Quote

Whenever you think God has shown you other people's faults, take care: your own judgment may well be at fault. Say nothing. And if you do attribute any vice to another person, immediately and humbly look for it in yourself also. Should the other person really possess that vice, he will correct himself so much the better when he sees how gently you understand him, and he will say to himself whatever you would have told him.

-- Saint Catherine of Siena

Saint Gianna Beretta Molla Quote

If you must choose between me and the baby, no hesitation; choose – and I demand it – the baby. Save the baby!

-- Saint Gianna Beretta Molla

Saint Quote: Saint Faustina Kowalska

Oh, how great is the goodness of God, greater than we can understand. There are moments and there are mysteries of the divine mercy over which the heavens are astounded. Let our judgment of souls cease, for God’s mercy upon them is extraordinary.

-- Saint Faustina Kowalska from her diary

Saint Quote: Saint Lawrence Giustiniani

If hope goes it alone, it ought to be called presumption.

-- Saint Lawrence Giustiniani

Saint Quote: Pope Saint Leo the Great

For all, regenerated in Christ, as 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

Saint Quote: Saint Francis of Assisi

Take a moment to think of everything you're proud of about yourself and your life. Then ask yourself if you would have any of this without God's permission and aid? Give credit where credit is due; praise and thank Him, not yourself.

-- Saint Francis of Assisi

Saint Quote: Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman

To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.

-- Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman

Saint Quote: Saint Ignatius of Antioch

You are firmly convinced about our Lord, who is truly of the race of David according to the flesh, Son of God according to the will and power of God, truly born of a virgin,. . . He was truly nailed to a tree for us in his flesh under Pontius Pilate. . . He truly suffered, as He is also truly risen.

-- Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Saint Quote: Saint Augustine of Hippo

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

-- Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Quote: Saint Melito of Sardis

Born as a son,

led forth as a lamb,

sacrificed as a sheep,

buried as a man,

he rose from the dead as a God,

for he was by nature God and man.

He is all things:

he judges, and so he is Law;

he teaches, and so he is Wisdom;

he saves, and so he is Grace;

he begets, and so he is Father;

he is begotten, and so he is Son;

he suffers, and so he is Sacrifice;

he is buried, and so he is man;

he rises again, and so he is God.

This is Jesus Christ,

to whom belongs glory for all ages.

-- Saint Melito of Sardis from his “Prayer in Praise of Christ”

Saint Quote: Saint Bridget of Sweden

Unending honor be to you, my Lord Jesus Christ. On the third day you rose from the dead and appeared to those you had chosen. And after forty days you ascended into heaven before the eyes of many witnesses, and there in heaven you gathered together in glory those you love, whom you had freed from hell.

-- Saint Bridget of Sweden

Saint Quote: Saint Melito of Sardis

The Lord, though he was God, became man. He suffered for the sake of whose who suffer, he was bound for those in bonds, condemned for the guilty, buried for those who lie in the grave; but he rose from the dead, and cried aloud: "Who will contend with me? Let him confront me." I have freed the condemned, brought the dead back to life, raised men from their graves. Who has anything to say against me? I, he said, am the Christ; I have destroyed death, triumphed over the enemy, trampled hell underfoot, bound the strong one, and taken men up to the heights of heaven: I am the Christ.

-- Saint Melito of Sardis

Saint Quote: Saint Peter Julian Eymard

In all He did from the Incarnation to the Cross, the end Jesus Christ had in mind was the gift of the Eucharist, his personal and corporal union with each Christian through Communion. He saw in It the means of communicating to us all the treasures of His Passion, all the virtues of His Sacred Humanity, and all the merits of His Life.

-- Saint Peter Julian Eymard

Saint Quote: Saint Ambrose of Milan

"The law of Thy mouth, O Lord, is good unto me, I keep Thy commandments.'' Thou hast Thyself said that Thou art one with the Father. Because Peter believed this, he received the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and without anxiety for himself forgave sins. Judas, because he believed not this, strangled himself with the cord of his own wickedness. O the hard stones of unbelieving words! O the unseemly cord of the betrayer, and the still more hideous purchase-money of the Jews! O hateful money wherewith either the just is bought for death, or sold ! Joseph was sold, Jesus Christ was bought, the one to slavery, the Other to death. O detestable inheritance, O deadly sale, which either sells a brother to suffering or sets a price on the Lord to destroy Him, the Purchaser of the salvation of all.

-- Saint Ambrose of Milan from "On the Holy Spirit, Book III"

Saint Quote: Saint Thomas More

The covetous claim to be Christian, yet they have no trust in Christ. For they are always afraid of want in the time to come, no matter how much they have.

-- Saint Thomas More

Saint Quote: Saint Melito of Sardis

God who is from God; the Son who is from the Father; Jesus Christ the King for evermore...He that bore up the earth was borne up on a tree. The Lord was subjected to ignominy with naked body--God put to death, the King of Israel slain!

-- Saint Melito of Sardis

Saint Quote: Saint Andrew of Crete

Let us go together to meet Christ on the Mount of Olives. Today he returns from Bethany and proceeds of his own free will toward his holy and blessed passion, to consummate the mystery of our salvation. He who came down from heaven to raise us from the depths of sin, to raise us with himself, we are told in Scripture, above every sovereignty, authority and power, and every other name that can be named, now comes of his own free will to make his journey to Jerusalem. He comes without pomp or ostentation. As the psalmist says: He will not dispute or raise his voice to make it heard in the streets. He will be meek and humble, and he will make his entry in simplicity.

-- Saint Andrew of Crete

Saint Quote: Saint Giuseppe Moscati

Remember, that you must treat not only bodies, but also souls, with counsel that appeals to their minds and hearts rather than with cold prescriptions to be sent in to the pharmacist.

-- Saint Giuseppe Moscati from a letter to one of his students

Note: Saint Giuseppe Moscati was the first modern doctor to be canonized.

Saint Quote: Saint Gemma Galgani

When I shrink from suffering, Jesus reproves me and tells me that He did not refuse to suffer. Then I say 'Jesus, Your will and not mine'. At last I am convinced that only God can make me happy, and in Him I have placed all my hope.

-- Saint Gemma Galgani

Saint Quote: Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Idleness begets a life of discontent. It develops self-love, which is the cause of all our miseries, and renders us unworthy to receive the favors of divine love.

-- Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Saint Quote: Saint Ambrose of Milan

He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others. So Scripture says: "If the clouds are full, they will pour rain upon the earth".

-- Saint Ambrose of Milan

Saint Quote: Saint Julie Billiart

Days of darkness are perhaps our best and happiest days for glorifying the good of God.

-- Saint Julie Billiart

Saint Quote: Saint John Baptist de La Salle

I had imagined that the care which I assumed of the schools and the masters would amount only to a marginal involvement committing me to no more than providing for the subsistence of the masters and assuring that they acquitted themselves of their tasks with piety and devotedness ... Indeed, if I had ever thought that the care I was taking of the schoolmasters out of pure charity would ever have made it my duty to live with them, I would have dropped the whole project. ... God, who guides all things with wisdom and serenity, whose way it is not to force the inclinations of persons, willed to commit me entirely to the development of the schools. He did this in an imperceptible way and over a long period of time so that one commitment led to another in a way that I did not foresee in the beginning of death.

-- Saint John Baptist de La Salle

Saint Quote: Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

He who wishes to love God does not truly love Him if he has not an ardent and constant desire to suffer for His sake.

-- Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

Saint Quote: Saint Teresa of Avila

It is impossible for a person who prays regularly to remain in serious sin; because the two are incompatible, one or the other will have to be given up.

-- Saint Teresa of Avila

Saint Quote: Saint Joseph the Hymnographer

Let us now our voices raise,

Wake the day with gladness;

God Himself to joy and praise

Turns our human sadness;

Joy that martyrs won their crown,

Opened heav’ns bright portal,

When they laid the mortal down

For the life immortal.

Never flinched they from the flame,

From the torment never;

Vain the tyrant’s sharpest aim,

Vain each fierce endeavor:

For by faith they saw the land

Decked in all its glory,

Where triumphant now they stand

With the victor’s story.

Up and follow, Christian men!

Press through toil and sorrow;

Spurn the night of fear, and then,

O the glorious morrow!

Who will venture on the strife;

Who will first begin it?

Who will grasp the land of life?

Warriors, up and win it!

-- Saint Joseph the Hymnographer from his hymn “Let Us Now Our Voices Raise”

Saint Quote: Saint Francis of Paola

Be peace-loving. Peace is a precious treasure to be sought with great zeal. You are well aware that our sins arouse God’s anger. You must change your life, therefore, so that God in his mercy will pardon you. What we conceal from men is known to God. Be converted, then, with a sincere heart. Live your life that you may receive the blessing of the Lord. Then the peace of God our Father will be with you always.

-- Saint Francis of Paola

Saint Quote: Saint Melito of Sardis

For our Lord, when He was born man, was condemned in order that He might show mercy, was bound in order that He might loose, was seized in order that He might release, suffered in order that He might feel compassion, died in order that He might give life, was laid in the grave that He might raise from the dead.

-- Saint Melito of Sardis