Saint Quote: Saint Alphais of Cudot

[The soul is] simple, invisible, incorporeal, not divided into parts like the body, present as a whole in whatever she does. The soul is not in a particular place. As God is everywhere, so the soul is everywhere in the body, more powerfully in heart and brain, as one says that God is in a special way in heaven.

–- Saint Alphais of Cudot

Saint Quote: Saint Augustine of Hippo

Neither are the souls of the pious dead separated from the Church which even now is the kingdom of Christ. Otherwise there would be no remembrance of them at the altar of God in the communication of the Body of Christ.

–- Saint Augustine of Hippo from “The City of God”

Saint Quote: Saint Simon Stock

Carmel's Flower,

Vine ever blossoming,

Heaven's splendor!

Virgin who bore a child.

No one is like thee.

Mother gentle and kind.

Yet never touched by man!

To Carmelites give thou the privilege.

Help us Star of the Sea.

–- Saint Simon Stock

Saint Quote: Blessed Maria Restituta Kafka

I have lived for Christ; I want to die for Christ.

–- Blessed Maria Restituta Kafka her last recorded words before being beheaded by the Nazi's

Saint Quote: Blessed Emilian Kovch

With the exception of heaven, this is the only place I wish to be. Here we are all the same: Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, Russians. I am the only priest. When I celebrate the liturgy, they pray for all, each one in his own language. Doesn't God understand all languages?

–- Blessed Emilian Kovch writing to his children from the concentration camp

Saint Quote: Saint Jude the Apostle

But you, my dearly beloved, be mindful of the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who told you, that in the last time there should come mockers, walking according to their own desires in ungodlinesses. These are they, who separate themselves, sensual men, having not the Spirit. But you, my beloved, building yourselves upon your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto life everlasting.

–- Saint Jude the Apostle from The Epistle of Jude 1: 17 - 21

Saint Quote: Saint John Chrysostom

It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone, or seated in your shop...while buying or selling...or even while cooking.

-- Saint John Chrysostom