Quotes by Saints - Page 2

He prays best who does not know that he is praying.
Saint Anthony of Padua
Once you begin to believe there is help "out there " you will know it to be true.
Saint Bartholomew
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
If we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times.
Saint Augustine
Poetry is the Devil's wine.
St. Augustine
Have patience with all things but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them-every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
Saint Augustine
Have patience with all things but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
St. Francis de Sales
I am not afraid. ... I was born to do this.
Joan of Arc
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
Therese of Lisieux
As a moth gnaws a garment so doth envy consume a man.
Saint John Chrysostom
What then is time? If no one asks me I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks I do not know.
Saint Augustine
Come let us give a little time to folly ... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.
Saint Bonaventura
Love and do what you like.
Saint Augustine
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.
Angela Merici
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
Angela Merici
What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.
Saint Augustine
Have patience with all things but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them-every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales
When large numbers of people share their joy in common the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
Saint Augustine
It is a misery to be born a pain to live a trouble to die.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
St. Augustine
He that is not jealous is not in love.
St. Augustine
The Jews were God's chosen people.
St. Chrysostom
Since love grows within you so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
St. Augustine
Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.
Saint Bartholomew
We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
Angela Merici
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice here by a smiling look there by a kindly word always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
Therese of Lisieux
Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that because of it he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.
Saint Bridget of Sweden
All the wealth of the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.
Saint Mary Margaret d'Youville
Order your soul reduce your wants live in charity associate in Christian community obey the laws trust in Providence.
Saint Augustine
Habit if not resisted soon becomes necessity.
St. Augustine
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Ignatius Loyola
He is more within us than we are ourselves.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
I need nothing but God and to lose myself in the heart of God.
Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
The Father most tender Father of all my immense God-I His atom.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
As in heaven Your will is punctually performed so may it be done on earth by all creatures particularly in me and by me.
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue.
Saint Agnes
If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss I would not despair I would not lose hope of mercy because I would trust in You my God.
Gemma Galgani
The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom and then put me back in my place.
Bernadette Soubirous
So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.
Saint Angela of Foligno
Our condition is most noble being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.
Saint Angela of Foligno
Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.
Saint Angela of Foligno
Oh if everyone knew how beautiful Jesus is how amiable He is! Fhey would all die from love.
Gemma Galgani
He loves He hopes He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.
Maria Goretti
Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.
Therese of Lisieux
It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me God eternal apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
Saint Catherine of Siena
Lord who art always the same give that I know myself give that I know Thee.
St. Augustine
The glory of God is in man fully alive.
St. Irenaeus
Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly.
St. Francis de Sales
Untilled ground however rich will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.
Therese of Lisieux
The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
Saint Alfred of Rievaulx
Friendship requires great communication.
Saint Francis de Sales
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute don't accept because you will lose one friend on the other hand if two strangers come with the same request accept because you will gain one friend.
Saint Augustine
A quarrel between friends when made up adds a new tie to friendship as ... the callosity formed 'round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.
Saint Francis de Sales
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
No medicine is more valuable none more efficacious none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.
Saint Alfred of Rievaulx
Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.
Elizabeth Ann Seton