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

Saint Quote: Saint Genoveva Torres Morales

I loved freedom of heart very much, and worked and am working to achieve it fully. It does the soul so much good that every effort is nothing compared with this free condition of the heart.

-- Saint Genoveva Torres Morales

Saint Quote: Saint Augustine of Hippo

Now there is a great difference between believing in Christ, and in believing that Jesus is the Christ. For that he was the Christ even the devils believed; but he believes in Christ who both loves Christ, and hopes in Christ.

-- Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Quote: Saint Therese of Lisieux

The greatest honor God can do a soul is not to give it much, but to ask much of it.

-- Saint Therese of Lisieux

Saint Quote: Saint Caesarius of Aries

A poor person asks you for something: you ask God for something. He begs for a morsel of food; you beg for eternal life. Give to the beggar so that you may receive from Christ. For He is who says," Give and it will be given to you." It baffles me that you have the imprudence to ask for what you do not want to give.

-- Saint Caesarius of Aries

Saint Quote: Saint Francis de Sales

We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

-- Saint Francis de Sales

Saint Quote: Saint Irenaeus of Lyons

God did not ask us to follow Him because He needed our help, but because He knew that loving Him would make us whole.

-- Saint Irenaeus of Lyons

Saint Quote: Saint Gabriel the Archangel

Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the most High; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father; and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever. And of his kingdom there shall be no end.

-- Saint Gabriel the Archangel to The Blessed Virgin Mary from Luke 1: 31 - 33

Saint Quote: Saint John Vianney

Tell the children about God and His Saints. During the holy time of Lent, speak to them of their suffering Savior. During Paschal time, of His glorious Resurrection. During Christmas time, of His Birth. You will see what a profound impression it will make on the minds of your children.

-- Saint John Vianney

Saint Quote: Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

What a weakness it is to love Jesus Christ only when He Caresses us, and to be cold immediately once He afflicts us. This is not true love. Those who love thus, love themselves too much to love God with all their heart.

-- Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

Saint Quote: Blessed Clemens August von Galen

"Thou shalt not kill." God engraved this commandment on the souls of men long before any penal code... God has engraved these commandments in our hearts... They are the unchangeable and fundamental truths of our social life... Where in Germany and where, here, is obedience to the precepts of God? [...] As for the first commandment, "Thou shalt not have strange gods before me," instead of the One, True, Eternal God, men have created at the dictates of their whim, their own gods to adore: Nature, the State, the Nation, or the Race.

-- Blessed Clemens August von Galen

Saint Quote: Saint Nicholas of Flüe

My Lord and my God, take from me everything that distances me from you.

My Lord and my God, give me everything that brings me closer to you.

My Lord and my God, detach me from myself to give my all to you.

-- Saint Nicholas of Flüe

Saint Quote: Saint John Bosco

When tempted, invoke your angel. He is more eager to help you than you are to be helped! Ignore the devil and do not be afraid of him: He trembles and flees at the sight of your guardian angel.

-- Saint John Bosco

Saint Quote: Pope Blessed John Paul II (On Saint Joseph)

What emanates from the figure of Saint Joseph is faith. Joseph of Nazareth is a “just man” because he totally “lives by faith.” He is holy because his faith is truly heroic. Sacred Scripture says little of him. It does not record even one word spoken by Joseph, the carpenter of Nazareth. And yet, even without words, he shows the depth of his faith, his greatness. Saint Joseph is a man of great spirit. He is great in faith, not because he speaks his own words, but above all because he listens to the words of the Living God. He listens in silence. And his heart ceaselessly perseveres in the readiness to accept the Truth contained in the word of the Living God. We see how the word of the Living God penetrates deeply into the soul of that man, that just man. And we, do we know how to listen to the word of God? Do we know how to absorb it into the depths of our human personalities? Do we open our conscience in the presence of this word?

-- Pope Blessed John Paul II

Saint Quote: Saint Angela Merici

Remember the devil never sleeps, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.

-- Saint Angela Merici

Saint Quote: 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 Quote: Saint Bridget of Sweden

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

-- Saint Bridget of Sweden

Saint Quote: Saint Claude de la Colombiere

To prefer man to God: A strange and unhappy slavery is that of a man who seeks to please other men. I vow never to do anything nor to leave anything undone because of what people think. This will set up in me a great interior peace.

-- Saint Claude de la Colombiere

Saint Quote: Saint Saint Cyprian of Carthage

These days no one thinks of the fears that the future holds. No one takes to heart the day of judgment, and the wrath of God. The punishments to come to unbelievers, and the eternal torments decreed for the faithless. If only they believed, they would heed, and if they took heed, they would escape.

-- Saint Cyprian of Carthage

Saint Quote: Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Mother Teresa of Calcutta receiving Medal of Freedom from President Ronald Reagan in 1985

It is a great poverty that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

-- Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Saint Quote: Saint Isidore of Seville

In reading we aim at knowing, but we must put into practice what we have learned in our course of study. 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. The man who is slow to grasp things but who really tries hard is rewarded, equally he who does not cultivate his God-given intellectual ability is condemned for despising his gifts and sinning by sloth.

-- Saint Isidore of Seville

Saint Quote: Saint Ignatius Loyola

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the Cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.

-- Saint Ignatius Loyola

Saint Quote: Saint John Ogilvie

If there be here any hidden Catholics, let them pray for me but the prayers of heretics I will not have.

-- Saint John Ogilvie at his execution

Note: Saint John Ogilvie has the distinction of being the Church‘s only officially recorded Scottish martyr during the Reformation.

Saint Quote: Saint Paul the Apostle

For I am even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my dissolution is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice, which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming.

-- Saint Paul the Apostle from 2 Timothy 4: 6 - 8

Saint Quote: Saint John Baptist de la Salle

Vigilance and prayer are the safeguards of chastity. You should pray often and fervently to be preserved from temptations against purity, and for the grace to overcome them.

-- Saint John Baptist de la Salle

Saint Quote: Saint Ambrose of Milan

Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.

-- Saint Ambrose of Milan

Saint Quote: Saint Augustine of Hippo

The garden of the Lord, brethren, includes - yes, it truly includes - includes not only the roses of martyrs but also the lilies of virgins, and the ivy of married people, and the violets of widows. There is absolutely no kind of human beings, my dearly beloved, who need to despair of their vocation; Christ suffered for all. It was very truly written about him: who wishes all men to be saved, and to come to the acknowledgement of the truth.

-- Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Quote: Pope Saint Clement I

Let us fix our attention on the blood of Christ and recognize how precious it is to God his Father, since it was shed for our salvation and brought the grace of repentance to all the world.

-- Pope Saint Clement I

Saint Quote: Saint Maximilian Kolbe

Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did.

-- Saint Maximilian Kolbe

Saint Quote: Saint Katharine Drexel

Christ wishes the Christian Community to be a body that is perfect because we work together towards a single end, and the higher the motive which actuates this collaboration the higher, no doubt, will be the union. Now the end in question is supremely exalted: the continuous sanctification of the Body for the glory of God and the Lamb that was slain.

-- Saint Katharine Drexel

Saint Quote: Saint Augustine of Hippo

For almighty God. . ., because he is supremely good, would never allow any evil whatsoever to exist in his works if he were not so all-powerful and good as to cause good to emerge from evil itself.

-- Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Quote: Saint David of Wales

Do ye the little things in life.

-- Saint David of Wales

Saint Quote: Saint Vincent de Paul

Read some chapter of a devout book....It is very easy and most necessary, for just as you speak to God when at prayer, God speaks to you when you read.

-- Saint Vincent de Paul

Saint Quote: Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

Love Mary! She is loveable, faithful, constant. She will never let herself be outdone in love, but will ever remain supreme. If you are in danger, she will hasten to free you. If you are troubled, she will console you. If you are sick, she will bring you relief. If you are in need, she will help you. She does not look to see what kind of person you have been. She simply comes to a heart that wants to love her. She comes quickly and opens her merciful heart to you, embraces you and consoles and serves you. She will even be at hand to accompany you on the trip to eternity.

-- Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

Saint Quote: Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Avoid evil practices; indeed, preach against them. Hear your bishop, that God may hear you. Work together in harmony,: struggle together, run together, suffer together, rest together, rise together, as stewards, advisors and servants of God. So be patient and gentle with one another, as God is with you.

-- Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Saint Quote: Saint James the Lesser

Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing. Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.

-- Saint James the Lesser from The Epistle of James 5: 13 - 16

Saint Quote: Saint Teresa of the Andes

He leaves His angels and millions of people, to come into your soul, to consummate in you the most intimate union, to transform you into God, to nourish in you the life of grace with which you will attain heaven.

-- Saint Teresa of the Andes

Saint Quote: Saint Polycarp of Smyrna

Now He that raised Him from the dead will raise us also; if we do His will and walk in His commandments and love the things which He loved, abstaining from all unrighteousness, covetousness, love of money, evil speaking, false witness; not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing or blow for blow or cursing for cursing; but remembering the words which the Lord spake as He taught; Judge not that ye be not judged. Forgive, and it shall be forgiven to you. Have mercy that ye may receive mercy. With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again; and again Blessed are the poor and they that are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of God.

-- Saint Polycarp of Smyrna from The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians

Saint Quote: Pope Saint Leo the Great On Saint Peter the Apostle

Out of the whole world one man, Peter, is chosen to preside at the head of all nations and to be set over all the apostles and all the fathers of the church. Though there are in God's people many bishops and many shepherds, Peter is thus appointed to rule in his own person those whom Christ also rules as the original ruler. Beloved, how great and wonderful is this sharing in his power that God in his goodness has given to this man. Whatever Christ has willed to be shared in common by Peter and the other leaders of the Church, it is only through Peter that he has given to others what he has not refused to bestow on them.

Jesus said: "Upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." On this strong foundation, he says, I will build an everlasting temple. The great height of my Church, which is to penetrate the heavens, shall rise on the firm foundation of this faith.

Blessed Peter is therefore told: "To you I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound also in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed also in heaven."

-- Pope Saint Leo the Great from a sermon

Saint Quote: Saint Peter Damian

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It is not sinners, but the wicked who should despair; it is not the magnitude of one’s crime, but contempt of God that dashes one’s hopes.

-- Saint Peter Damian

Saint Quote: Saint Francis de Sales

Everyone argues in favor of the virtue he practices easily, and exaggerates the difficulties of the virtues that are contrary to it.

-- Saint Francis de Sales

Saint Quote: Saint Padre Pio

Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful, and will hear your prayer.

-- Saint Padre Pio

Saint Quote: Saint Charles Borromeo

If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.

-- Saint Charles Borromeo

Saint Quote: Saint John Francis Regis

Brother, I see our Lord and our Lady opening the gates of Paradise for me. Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.

-- Saint John Francis Regis on his deathbed