Saint Quote: Saint Isidore of Seville

In reading we aim at knowing, but we must put into practice what we have learned in our course of study. The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest. The man who is slow to grasp things but who really tries hard is rewarded, equally he who does not cultivate his God-given intellectual ability is condemned for despising his gifts and sinning by sloth.

-- Saint Isidore of Seville

Saint Quote: Saint Ignatius Loyola

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the Cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.

-- Saint Ignatius Loyola

Saint Quote: Saint John Ogilvie

If there be here any hidden Catholics, let them pray for me but the prayers of heretics I will not have.

-- Saint John Ogilvie at his execution

Note: Saint John Ogilvie has the distinction of being the Church‘s only officially recorded Scottish martyr during the Reformation.

Saint Quote: Saint Paul the Apostle

For I am even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my dissolution is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice, which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming.

-- Saint Paul the Apostle from 2 Timothy 4: 6 - 8

Saint Quote: Saint John Baptist de la Salle

Vigilance and prayer are the safeguards of chastity. You should pray often and fervently to be preserved from temptations against purity, and for the grace to overcome them.

-- Saint John Baptist de la Salle

Saint Quote: Saint Ambrose of Milan

Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.

-- Saint Ambrose of Milan

Saint Quote: Saint Augustine of Hippo

The garden of the Lord, brethren, includes - yes, it truly includes - includes not only the roses of martyrs but also the lilies of virgins, and the ivy of married people, and the violets of widows. There is absolutely no kind of human beings, my dearly beloved, who need to despair of their vocation; Christ suffered for all. It was very truly written about him: who wishes all men to be saved, and to come to the acknowledgement of the truth.

-- Saint Augustine of Hippo