Quotes of Saints

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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow. - St. Augustine

He entered death itself for us and endured this experience that is common to our nature (namely death according to the flesh), even though as God, He was life by nature, in order to despoil Hades and to return human nature to life. - St. Cyril of Alexandria

Christ is Risen! And you, O death are annihilated! - St. John Chrysostom

Sin makes a coward; a life in the truth of Christ makes him bold - St. John Chrysostom

The enemy surrounds us, and we shall perish unless we fight. If we really fight, we are given assurance of victory. - St. Francis de Sales

It is easier to measure the entire sea with a tiny cup, than to grasp the ineffable greatness of God with the human mind. - St. Basil the Great

Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer. - St. Padre Pio

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. - St. Augustine

Virginity can be lost by a thought. - St. Jerome

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows. - St. Alfred the Great

The friendship that can cease has never been real. - St. Jerome

I am not afraid, I was born to do this. - St. Joan of Arc

The purpose of all wars, is peace - St. Augustine

It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction. - St. Edmund the Martyr

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned. - St. Alfred the Great

Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection. - St. Benedict of Nursia

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

The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends. - John Cassian (venerated by Eastern Catholic Churches)

Act, and God will act. - St. Joan of Arc

I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of Christ and not by Christ’s 'words and example. - St. Bernard

The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page. - St. Augustine
 
'A saint is not someone who never sins, but one who sins less and less frequently and gets up more and more quickly’. - St Bernard of Clairvaux
 
‘You know you’re a contemplative when it takes you an hour to pray the Our Father.’
-St. Theresa of Calcutta
 
“The world’s thy ship and not thy home.”

Saint Therese of Lisieux
 
“How soon we shall be in the realm of eternity. And then we shall see how little all the affairs of this world amount and how little it mattered whether they did or did not succeed. But all the same now we pursue them as if they were great things. One day we shall in heaven see that what we clung to in this world was nothing more than a child’s fancy.” St. Frances de Sales

“If God allows you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make you a saint.” St. Ignatius Loyola

“Let these souls so dear to God, and who are resolutely determined to belong entirely to Him, take comfort, although at the same time they see themselves deprived of every consolation. Their desolation is a sign of their being very acceptable to God, and that he has for them a place prepared in His Heavenly Kingdom, which overflows with consolations as full as they are lasting. And let them hold for certain, that the more they are afflicted in this present life, so much the more they shall be consoled in eternity…” St. Alphonsus Liguori,

“From the vantage point of eternity, even the most miserable life on earth will seem like only one night in a lousy hotel.” St. Teresa of Avila

“Never utter in your neighbor’s absence what you would not utter in their presence.” St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
 
Not a canonized saint, but wish she were. 2 from Julian of Norwich, who l was born in England around 1343. Her feast is coming up, depending. Anyway, 2 from her amazing book, Revelations of Divine Love.

“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well”.

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“He said not ‘Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be diseased’; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome”.
 
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