Saint Quotes - Page 2

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

No one heals himself by wounding another.

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.

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

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

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.

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you.

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

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

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.

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately

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

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.

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?

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