Saint John the Baptist

Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 

-- Saint John the Baptist from the Gospel According to John 1: 29

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

It is better to be the child of God than king of the whole world.

-- Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

Saint Vincent Ferrer

Christ, the Master of humility, manifests His Truth only to the humble and hides Himself from the proud.

-- Saint Vincent Ferrer

Saint Andre Bessette

When I joined this community, the superiors showed me the door, and I remained forty years.

-- Saint Andre Bessette This was in regard to Saint Andre having difficulty in being accepted into the order of the Holy Cross Brothers, and upon being accepted was given the job of doorkeeper.

Saint John Nepomucene Neumann

The few [priests] we have are sadly out of proportion to the ever-increasing wants of the faithful. There are Catholics who have not been to confession for many years, and there are young people of nineteen or twenty who have nothing of Catholicity about them, saving their baptism and all this from the want of priests. The longer this need continues, the more difficult it will be to reanimate faith and the fear of God.

-- Saint John Nepomucene Neumann

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

We know certainly that our God calls us to a holy life. We know that he gives us every grace, every abundant grace; and though we are so weak of ourselves, this grace is able to carry us through every obstacle and difficulty.

-- Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton 

Saint Gregory Nazianzen

Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.  

-- Saint Gregory Nazianzen