Saint Quotes - Page 3

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 do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.

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.

The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

Our Lord Himself, I saw alone in him, both in his and my part of this Venerable Sacrament. For, Oh, Amabilia! How awful those words of unloosing, after thirty years of bondage! I felt as if my chains fell, as those of Saint Peter at the touch of the divine messenger. My God, what new scenes for my soul!

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish.

Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.

Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.

Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.

The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.

It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins, 'you will receive a never-fading crown of glory'

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

It is loving the Cross that one finds one heart, for Divine Love cannot live without suffering.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

Nothing is far from God.