Saint Cyprian of Carthage

If He who was without sin prayed, how much more ought sinners to pray?

-- Saint Cyprian of Carthage

Saint John Vianney

 

 

I tell you that you have less to suffer in following the Cross than in serving the world and its pleasures.

-- Saint John Vianney

Saint Francis de Sales

For since the bringing of children into the world is the principal end of marriage, to do anything in order to prevent the accomplishment of this end is always mortal sin.

-- Saint Francis de Sales

Saint Thomas Becket

 

 

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

-- Saint Thomas Becket