Saint Quotes

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.

Love God, serve God; everything is in that.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God.

The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers.

The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.

We are all called to be great saints, don't miss the opportunity.

Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.

Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.

Enjoy yourself as much as you like - if only you keep from sin.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

There will be no sickness for the saint of God. ... If your body belongs to God, it does not and cannot belong to sickness.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

No one heals himself by wounding another.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.

To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints.

The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cannot be settled while you are continualy stirring the earthly particles from the bottom.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.

You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.

Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.

But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.

The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.

To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?

My hope is in you, Lord. Be my refuge, for You are my strength.... Into Your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, Lord, God of Truth.

First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.