Saint Quote: Saint Francis of Assisi

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

-- Saint Francis of Assisi

Saint Quote: Saint Augustine of Hippo

Trust the past to the Mercy of God, the present to His Love, and the future to His Providence.

-- Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Quote: Saint Francis Xavier

It is not the actual physical exertion that counts toward a man's progress, nor the nature of the task, but the spirit of faith with which it is undertaken.

-- Saint Francis Xavier

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Therese of Lisieux

You ask me a method of attaining perfection. I know of love - and only love. Love can do all things.

-- Saint Therese of Lisieux

Saint Quote: Pope Saint Gregory the Great On Mary Magdalen

When Mary Magdalen came to the tomb and did not find the Lord’s body, she thought it had been taken away and so informed the disciples. After they came and saw the tomb, they too believed what Mary had told them. The text then says: “The disciples went back home,” and it adds: “but Mary wept and remained standing outside the tomb.” We should reflect on Mary’s attitude and the great love she felt for Christ; for though the disciples had left the tomb, she remained. She was still seeking the one she had not found, and while she sought she wept; burning with the fire of love, she longed for him who she thought had been taken away. And so it happened that the woman who stayed behind to seek Christ was the only one to see him. For perseverance is essential to any good deed, as the voice of truth tell us: “Whoever perseveres to the end will be saved.”

-- Pope Saint Gregory the Great from a homily

Saint Quote: Saint Lawrence of Brindisi

God is love, and all his operations proceed from love. Once he wills to manifest that goodness by sharing his love outside himself, then the Incarnation becomes the supreme manifestation of his goodness and love and glory. So, Christ was intended before all other creatures and for his own sake. For him all things were created and to him all things must be subject, and God loves all creatures in and because of Christ. Christ is the first-born of every creature, and the whole of humanity as well as the created world finds its foundation and meaning in him. Moreover, this would have been the case even if Adam had not sinned. 

-- Saint Lawrence of Brindisi

Saint Quote: Saint Josephine Bakhita

The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone… we must be compassionate! 

-- Saint Josephine Bakhita

A bit of trivia for you. On January 9, 1890 Saint Josephine Bakhita was baptised. On that same day, she was also confirmed, and received Holy Communion from Archbishop Giuseppe Sarto, the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, the future Pope Pius X, himself.