Saint Quote: Saint Joseph the Hymnographer

Let us now our voices raise,

Wake the day with gladness;

God Himself to joy and praise

Turns our human sadness;

Joy that martyrs won their crown,

Opened heav’ns bright portal,

When they laid the mortal down

For the life immortal.

Never flinched they from the flame,

From the torment never;

Vain the tyrant’s sharpest aim,

Vain each fierce endeavor:

For by faith they saw the land

Decked in all its glory,

Where triumphant now they stand

With the victor’s story.

Up and follow, Christian men!

Press through toil and sorrow;

Spurn the night of fear, and then,

O the glorious morrow!

Who will venture on the strife;

Who will first begin it?

Who will grasp the land of life?

Warriors, up and win it!

-- Saint Joseph the Hymnographer from his hymn “Let Us Now Our Voices Raise”

Saint Quote: Saint Francis of Paola

Be peace-loving. Peace is a precious treasure to be sought with great zeal. You are well aware that our sins arouse God’s anger. You must change your life, therefore, so that God in his mercy will pardon you. What we conceal from men is known to God. Be converted, then, with a sincere heart. Live your life that you may receive the blessing of the Lord. Then the peace of God our Father will be with you always.

-- Saint Francis of Paola

Saint Quote: Saint Melito of Sardis

For our Lord, when He was born man, was condemned in order that He might show mercy, was bound in order that He might loose, was seized in order that He might release, suffered in order that He might feel compassion, died in order that He might give life, was laid in the grave that He might raise from the dead.

-- Saint Melito of Sardis

Saint Quote: Saint Genoveva Torres Morales

I loved freedom of heart very much, and worked and am working to achieve it fully. It does the soul so much good that every effort is nothing compared with this free condition of the heart.

-- Saint Genoveva Torres Morales

Saint Quote: Saint Augustine of Hippo

Now there is a great difference between believing in Christ, and in believing that Jesus is the Christ. For that he was the Christ even the devils believed; but he believes in Christ who both loves Christ, and hopes in Christ.

-- Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Quote: Saint Therese of Lisieux

The greatest honor God can do a soul is not to give it much, but to ask much of it.

-- Saint Therese of Lisieux

Saint Quote: Saint Caesarius of Aries

A poor person asks you for something: you ask God for something. He begs for a morsel of food; you beg for eternal life. Give to the beggar so that you may receive from Christ. For He is who says," Give and it will be given to you." It baffles me that you have the imprudence to ask for what you do not want to give.

-- Saint Caesarius of Aries