Saint Quote: Pope Saint Leo the Great

For all, regenerated in Christ, as made kings by the sign of the cross. They are consecrated priests by the oil of the Holy Spirit, so that beyond the special service of our ministry as priests, all spiritual and mature Christians know that they are a royal race and are sharers in the office of the priesthood.

-- Pope Saint Leo the Great

Saint Quote: Saint Francis of Assisi

Take a moment to think of everything you're proud of about yourself and your life. Then ask yourself if you would have any of this without God's permission and aid? Give credit where credit is due; praise and thank Him, not yourself.

-- Saint Francis of Assisi

Saint Quote: Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman

To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.

-- Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman

Saint Quote: Saint Ignatius of Antioch

You are firmly convinced about our Lord, who is truly of the race of David according to the flesh, Son of God according to the will and power of God, truly born of a virgin,. . . He was truly nailed to a tree for us in his flesh under Pontius Pilate. . . He truly suffered, as He is also truly risen.

-- Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Saint Quote: Saint Augustine of Hippo

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

-- Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Quote: Saint Melito of Sardis

Born as a son,

led forth as a lamb,

sacrificed as a sheep,

buried as a man,

he rose from the dead as a God,

for he was by nature God and man.

He is all things:

he judges, and so he is Law;

he teaches, and so he is Wisdom;

he saves, and so he is Grace;

he begets, and so he is Father;

he is begotten, and so he is Son;

he suffers, and so he is Sacrifice;

he is buried, and so he is man;

he rises again, and so he is God.

This is Jesus Christ,

to whom belongs glory for all ages.

-- Saint Melito of Sardis from his “Prayer in Praise of Christ”

Saint Quote: Saint Bridget of Sweden

Unending honor be to you, my Lord Jesus Christ. On the third day you rose from the dead and appeared to those you had chosen. And after forty days you ascended into heaven before the eyes of many witnesses, and there in heaven you gathered together in glory those you love, whom you had freed from hell.

-- Saint Bridget of Sweden