Saint Gregory of Nyssa

If by a diligent life of virtue, you wash away the film of dirt that covers your heart, then the divine beauty will shine forth in you.

-- Saint Gregory of Nyssa

Saint Patrick of Ireland

That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

-- Saint Patrick of Ireland

Saint Anselm of Canterbury

O, Lord, through your Son you command us, no, you counsel us to ask, and you promise that you will hear us so that our joy may be complete. Give me then what you promise to give through your Truth. You, O God, are faithful; grant that I may receive my request, so that my joy may be complete. 

-- Saint Anselm of Canterbury

Saint Louise de Marillac

How good it is to trust God! Turn to Him often, as children look to their father and mother in their needs.

-- Saint Louise de Marillac

Saint Alcuin

In the morning, at the height of my powers, I sowed the seed in Britain, now in the evening when my blood is growing cold I am still sowing in France, hoping both will grow, by the grace of God, giving some the honey of the holy scriptures, making others drunk on the old wine of ancient learning. 

-- Saint Alcuin

Saint Joseph de Veuster

I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.

-- Saint Joseph de Veuster in a letter to his father

Saint Isidore of Seville

The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest. 

-- Saint Isidore of Seville