Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Patrick of Ireland

 

 

 I came to the Irish people to preach the Gospel and endure the taunts of unbelievers, putting up with reproaches about my earthly pilgrimage, suffering many persecutions, even bondage, and losing my birthright of freedom for the benefit of others.

If I am worthy, I am ready also to give up my life, without hesitation and most willingly, for Christ's name. I want to spend myself for that country, even in death, if the Lord should grant me this favor.

It is among that people that I want to wait for the promise made by him, who assuredly never tells a lie. He makes this promise in the Gospel: "They shall come from the east and west and sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." This is our faith: believers are to come from the whole world.

-- Saint Patrick of Ireland from the Confession of Saint Patrick

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Gregory Nazianzen

 

Nothing gives such pleasure to God as the conversion and salvation of men, for whom his every word and every revelation exist. He wants you to become a living force for all mankind, lights shining in the world. You are to be radiant lights as you stand beside Christ, the great light, bathed in the glory of him who is the light of heaven.

-- Saint Gregory Nazianzen

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Louise de Marillac

 

 

Certainly it is the great secret of the spiritual life to abandon to God all that we love by abandoning ourselves to all that He wills.

-- Saint Louise de Marillac

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Louis IX

 

 

If the Lord has permitted you to have some trial, bear it willingly and with gratitude, considering that it has happened for your good and that perhaps you well deserved it. If the Lord bestows upon you any kind of prosperity, thank him humbly and see that you become no worse for it, either through vain pride or anything else, because you ought not to oppose God or offend him in the matter of his gifts.

-- Saint Louis IX from a spiritual testament to his son

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Agostina Petrantoni

 

 

All is too little for the Lord.

-- Saint Agostina Petrantoni

Saint Quote of the Day : Saint Isidore of Seville

 

 

If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.

-- Saint Isidore of Seville

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne

 

We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self.

-- Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne