Saint Quote: Saint Benedict of Nursia

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

-- Saint Benedict of Nursia

Saint Quote: Saint Vincent Pallotti

You must be holy in the way that God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify the world and your everyday life. 

-- Saint Vincent Pallotti

Saint Quote: Saint John Bosco

The principal safeguard is a prudent reserve, and not allowing liberties to be taken with you. Purity is a precious jewel, and the owner of a precious stone would never dream of making a display of his riches in the presence of thieves.

-- Saint John Bosco

Saint Quote: Saint Marie de Saint Just

I want to go to China, to give my life for the Chinese people. 

-- Saint Marie de Saint Just

Saint Quote: Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.

-- Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

Saint Quote: Saint Thomas Aquinas

The certainty that the divine light gives is greater than that which the light of natural reason gives.

-- Saint Thomas Aquinas

Saint Quote: Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria

No greater pride is there than judging others, nor is there anything for which God abandons man, more than for judging others. Everywhere in the Scriptures God tells us clearly not to judge others, but rather ourselves. Likewise spiritual writers condemn this fault of judging others with so many examples that the day would sooner be over than we could relate just a few of them. Take this thought for a conclusion: the beginning of the ruin of the spiritual life is judging others.

-- Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria from a sermon