Saint Quote : Saint Thomas of Villanova

 

 

Let them ask if Augustine or John Chrysostom used anathemas and excommunication to stop drunkenness and blasphemy.

-- Saint Thomas of Villanova after being cricized for his gentleness with sinners

Saint Quote : Saint Isidore of Seville

 

 

All spiritual growth comes from reading and reflection. By reading we learn what we did not know; by reflection we retain what we have learned.

-- Saint Isidore of Seville


Note: Saint Isidore of Seville is considered the leading candidate for Patron Saint of the Internet and computer users.

Saint Quote: Saint Francis Xavier

Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.

--Saint Francis Xavier

Saint Quote: Saint Euphemia

 

 

We are people endowed with reason, for whom it would be the greatest disgrace to abandon the one true God, the Maker of heaven and earth, in order to worship dumb, senseless idols. We are not afraid of torments you threaten us with. They will be easy for us to bear and will show the power of our God.

-- Saint Euphemia when ordered by a proconsul to sacrifice to a statue

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Saint Quote : Blessed John Cardinal Newman

 

 

Reason can but ascertain the profound difficulties of our condition, it cannot remove them.

-- Blessed John Cardinal Newman

Saint Quote: Saint Robert Bellarmine

Sweet Lord, you are meek and merciful." Who would not give himself wholeheartedly to your service, if he began to taste even a little of your fatherly rule? What command, Lord, do you give your servants? "Take my yoke upon you," you say. And what is this yoke of yours like? "My yoke," you say, "is easy and my burden light." Who would not be glad to bear a yoke that does no press hard but caresses? Who would not be glad for a burden that does not weigh heavy but refreshes? And so you were right to add: "And you will find rest for your souls." And what is this yoke of yours that does not weary, but gives rest? It is, of course, that first and greatest commandment: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart." What is easier, sweeter, more pleasant, than to love goodness, beauty, and love, the fullness of which you are, O Lord, my God?

-- Saint Robert Bellarmine from "On the Ascent of the Mind to God"