What is your favorite Bible verse or favorite quotation by a saint or famous personality?

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Whether we live,

We live unto the Lord;

And whether we die,

We die unto the Lord;

Whether we live therefore, or die,

We are the Lord’s.

Romans 14:8
 
Sorry for putting in so many, I pray so many of these prayers and bible quotes every day … I have a ton more but I don’t want to take up the thread.
 
Lord, listen to my prayer:

Turn your ear to my appeal

You are faithful, you are just; give answer.

Do not call your servant to judgment

For no one is just in your sight.

The enemy pursues my soul;

He has crushed my life to the ground;

He has made me dwell in darkness

Like the dead, long forgotten.

Therefore my spirit fails;

My heart is numb within me.

I remember the days that are past;

I ponder all your works.

I muse on what your hand has wrought

And to you I stretch out my hands.

Like a parched land my soul thirsts for you.

Lord, make haste and answer;

For my spirit fails within me.

Do not hide your face

Lest I become like those in the grave.

In the morning let me know your love

For I put my trust in you –

Make me know the way I should walk;

To you I lift up my soul.

Rescue me, Lord, from my enemies;

I have fled to you for refuge.

Teach me to do your will

For you, O Lord, are my God

Let your good spirit guide me

In ways that are level and smooth.

For our name’s sake, Lord, save my life;

In your justice save my soul from distress.

Psalm 143:1-11 (Galastians 2:16)
 
Prayer To The Heart of Jesus

Does our life become from day to day more painful,

More oppressive, more replete with suffering?

Blessed be He a Thousand times who desires it so.

If life be harder, love makes it also stronger,

And only this love, grounded on suffering,

Can carry the Cross of my Lord Jesus Christ.

I believe, O Lord, but strengthen my faith …,.

Heart of Jesus, I love Thee, but increase my love.

Heart of Jesus, I trust in Thee,

But give greater vigor to my confidence.

Heart of Jesus, I give my heart to Thee, but so enclose it

In Thee that it may never be separated from Thee.

Heart of Jesus, I am all Thine,

But take care of my promise so that I may be able to

Put it in practice even unto the complete sacrifice of my life.

Blessed Miguel Pro, SJ
 
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.

I do not see the road ahead of me.

I cannot know for certain where it will end.

Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following

Your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.

But, I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.

I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.

And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road,

Though I may know nothing about it.

Therefore I will trust you always,

Though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me,

And you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

by Thomas Merton
 
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Start by doing what’s necessary,

then do what’s possible,

and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

St. Francis of Assisi
 
I’m not telling you it is going to be easy - I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it

Art Williams
 
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard
 
Isaiah 40:31

Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;

they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
 
Let me not Pray to be Sheltered from Dangers

But to be Fearless in Facing them.

Let me not Beg for the Stilling of my Pain,

But for The Heart to Conquer it.

Let me not Crave in Anxious Fear to be Saved,

But Hope for the Patience to win my Freedom.

Grant Me,

That I may not be a coward,

Feeling your mercy in my success alone;

But let me find,

The grasp of your hand in my failure.

(Rabindranath Tagore, Fruit-Gathering)
 
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O most merciful Jesus, Grant me Your Grace,

That it may remain with me always

And persevere with me to the end.

Grant me always to will and desire

What is most pleasing and acceptable to You.

Let Your will be mine, and let my will

Always follow Yours in perfect conformity with it.

Let my will and desires always be one with Yours;

And let me be unable to will or not to will

Except as You will or do not will.

Grant that I may die to all worldly things,

And that I may be despised and unknown for love of You.

Grant, above all things to be desired,

That I may find rest in You,

And in Your heart alone may be my peace.

You, O Lord, give true peace to the heart

And perfect rest to the body and soul.

Apart from You, all is difficult and never still.

In that peace, in You Who are the one,

Supreme and Eternal God,

I will sleep and take my rest.

Amen.
 
Do not look forward to what may happen
tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares
for you today will take care of you tomorrow and
every day. Either He will shield you from suffering,
or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it.
Be at peace, then. Put aside all anxious thoughts and
imaginations, and say continually: “The Lord is my
strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in Him
and I am helped. He is not only with me but in me,
and I in Him.”

St. Francis de Sales
 
We needed a Savior, and the Virgin delivered!

“Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord, let it be done to me according to thy word.”

Thanks Blessed Mother!!!
 
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“If all could know the happiness of the religious state, men would rush madly into it. . .”
St. Lawrence Justinian

“You know that there is no middle course, and that it is a question of being saved or lost for all eternity. It depends on us: either we may choose to love God eternally with the Saints in Heaven after we have done violence to self here below by mortifying and crucifying ourselves as they did, or else renounce their happiness by giving to nature all for which it craves.”

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

“The Lord excites in me a longing for the hidden life, as if to make me shun in the various duties that I fulfil the forming of acquaintances and too close relations with people of the world. . . . My happiness would be to be able to say Holy Mass in some abandoned chapel to which no one came.”

St. Peter Julian Eymard

“And since I in the beginning created man to my own image and likeness, and afterwards too your image on myself by assuming human nature, it is always my endeavor, in so far as you are fit for it, to intensify that likeness between me and you.”

The Eternal Father to St. Catherine of Siena
 
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Fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand. -Isaiah 41:10
 
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Okay last one. This one I really like and came upon it actually today. It’s pretty long and basically is a novel but it’s definitely well worth the read.

“It remains to be seen how we can attain to this happy state. One sure way to lead us to it is the frequent practice of the virtue of submission. But as the opportunities for practicing it in a big way come rather seldom, we must take advantage of the small ones which occur daily, and which will soon put us in a position to face the greater trials with equanimity when the time comes. There is no one who does not experience a hundred small annoyances every day, caused either by our own carelessness or inattention, or by the inconsideration or spite of other people, or by pure accident. Our whole lives are made up of incidents of this kind, occurring ceaselessly from one minute to another and producing a host of involuntary feelings of dislike and aversion, envy, fear and impatience to trouble the serenity of our minds. We let an incautious word slip out and wish we had not said it; someone says something we find offensive; we have to wait a long time to be served when we are in a hurry; we are irritated by a child’s boisterousness; a boring acquaintance buttonholes us in the street; a car splashes us with mud; the weather spoils our outing; our work is not going as well as we would wish; a tool breaks at a critical moment; we get our clothes torn or stained – these are not occasions for practicing heroic virtue but they can be a means of acquiring it if we wish. If we were careful to offer all these petty annoyances to God and accept them as being ordered by His providence we would soon be in a position to support the greatest misfortunes that can happen to us, besides at the same time insensibly drawing close to intimate union with God.”
  • St. Claude de la Colombiere
 
I’ve posted this before, but…oh well. Her courage and her sense of humor in the face of impending death is incredible to me!

"It is said in the Gospel that God will come like a Thief. He will come to steal me away very gently. Oh how I would love to aid the Thief!
I’m not afraid of the Thief. I see Him in the distance, and I take good care not to call out: ‘Help Thief!’ On the contrary, I call to Him saying: “Over here, over here!!!”

~Saint Thérèse of Lisieux June 9, 1897~
 
Mine would be:

Philippians 4:13
13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

I also like Mother Theresa’s “I Thirst”
 
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“…but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15

“…she shall crush thy head and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.” Genesis 3:15

“Lord, let it not be I who fails you when the hour comes.” Don Juan of Austria on the eve of the Battle of Lepanto (1572)

“The truth is not always the same as the majority decision” Pope John Paul II
 
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