Saint Quotes - Page 8

• The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.

  John of Damascus

  Life, God, Faith

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• To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Spiritual, Religious, Kindness

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• Let us throw ourselves into the ocean of His goodness, where every failing will be canceled and anxiety turned into love.

  Paul of the Cross

  Ocean, Anxiety, Failing

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• Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul with the garment of faith? Remember each morning the truths of your creed, and look at yourself in the mirror of your faith. Otherwise, your soul will soon be naked with the nakedness of oblivion.

  Saint Augustine

  Morning, Clothes, Mirrors

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• He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself in order, since he can be dirty without knowing it. The person who meditates and turns his thoughts to God who is the mirror of the soul, seeks to know his defects and tries to correct them, moderates himself in his impulses and puts his conscience in order.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Dirty, Knowing, Mirrors

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• All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Two, Suffering, Done

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

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Forgiveness, Graves, Fallen

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• Christ before me, Christ behind me,Christ in me.

  Saint Patrick

  Christ, Behinds

  St Patrick's Breastplate, traditionally attributed to the saint.

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• The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

  Pope Gregory I

  Love, Faith, Christian

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• Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and that you behave like true knights in your encounters with the same adversities which they had to conquer, and that breathtaking joy is theirs and your eternal reward for having endured a few years of temporal pain. Every drop of earthly bitterness will be changed into an ocean of heavenly sweetness.

  Henry Suso

  Pain, Ocean, Adversity

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• The more a person loves God, the more reason he has to hope in Him. This hope produces in the Saints an unutterable peace, which they preserve even in adversity, because as they love God, and know how beautiful He is to those who love Him, they place all their confidence and find all their repose in Him alone.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Beautiful, Adversity, God Love

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• 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

  Dominic Savio

  Jesus, Holy Eucharist, Confession

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• 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'

  Louis de Montfort

  Rosary, Crowns, Fading

  St. Louis de Montfort (1983). “The Secret of the Rosary”, p.13, TAN Books

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• Recite your Rosary with faith, with humility, with confidence, and with perseverance.

  Louis de Montfort

  Perseverance, Humility, Rosary

  St. Louis de Montfort (1983). “The Secret of the Rosary”, p.106, TAN Books

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• The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

  Saint Augustine

  Our World, Heaven, Return

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• We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  God, Faith, Religious

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• What do they not see, who see Him Who sees all things?

  Pope Gregory I

  All Things

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• Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Devil, Rosary

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• They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.

  John of the Cross

  Talking

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• 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.

  Anthony of Padua

  Mother, Angel, Birth

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• The saints are like the stars. In his providence Christ conceals them in a hidden place that they may not shine before others when they might wish to do so. Yet they are always ready to exchange the quiet of contemplation for the works of mercy as soon as they perceive in their heart the invitation of Christ.

  Anthony of Padua

  Stars, Heart, Shining

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• You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!

  Francis of Assisi

  Praise, Ends, Should

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• Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And live a new life. Pray, and get others to pray, that God not abandon His Church, but reform it as He pleases, and as He sees best for us, and more to His honor and glory.

  Angela Merici

  Inspiration, Honor, Church

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• The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Heaven, Temptation, Wish

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• Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Ethos, Catholic

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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