Author Topic: Favorite Quotations from the Saints? (Read 6013 times)

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #15 on:** July 10, 2013, 11:13:18 PM »

" All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics". Pope Saint Pius V

jlamos · « **Reply #16 on:** July 10, 2013, 11:46:15 PM »

Quote from: Viva Cristo Rey

" All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics". Pope Saint Pius V

:applause:

shin · « **Reply #17 on:** July 10, 2013, 11:46:52 PM »

'The reason why the lukewarm run so great a risk of being lost is because tepidity conceals from the soul the immense evil which it causes.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

'When you said, It is enough, then you perished.'

St. Augustine

poche · « **Reply #18 on:** July 10, 2013, 11:48:14 PM »

"Those who pray are saved. Those who do no are lost."
Alphonsus Ligouri

shin · « **Reply #19 on:** July 10, 2013, 11:49:22 PM »

There's a lot of depth to that simple statement.. It's something to think and think on. And yet it is simple.

shin · « **Reply #20 on:** July 10, 2013, 11:50:36 PM »

'. . . I put a cap on my head with all my sins written upon it, and rode backwards on an ass so as to overcome this miserable world. As I rode thus through the streets of Perugia, the children came in crowds and threw mud at me. In this condition of reproach I went to the Friars and put on the habit. Blessed be that day!'

St. John of Capistrano

poche · « **Reply #21 on:** July 11, 2013, 01:07:32 AM »

Those who do not believe in Hell are those most in danger of going there.
St Alphonsus Ligouri

poche · « **Reply #22 on:** July 11, 2013, 02:13:25 AM »

The Word of God is my food. It is not of myself that I promise such a force. It is you, O Jesus, who put those words in my mouth and give me the grace to accomplish.

— Saint Prosper d’Aquitaine

shin · « **Reply #23 on:** July 11, 2013, 02:17:46 PM »

'As the body without the soul cannot love, so the soul without prayer is dead and emits an offensive odor.'

St. John Chrysostom

poche · « **Reply #24 on:** July 11, 2013, 11:20:45 PM »

Everything should be done for love, nothing by force.
St Francis de Sales.

Napoli · « **Reply #25 on:** July 11, 2013, 11:24:38 PM »

What if your jam jar is stuck? Should you use force or love?

Frances · « **Reply #26 on:** July 11, 2013, 11:27:48 PM »

"It is greatly to be wished that your soul was as beautiful as your dog." ~St. John Vianney to a man who brought his hunting hound to Ars.

poche · « **Reply #27 on:** July 11, 2013, 11:38:44 PM »

Quote from: Napoli

What if your jam jar is stuck? Should you use force or love?

Ask St Francis de Sales.

poche · « **Reply #28 on:** July 11, 2013, 11:39:44 PM »

Abbot Pastor, "If someone does evil to you, you should do good to him, so that by your good work you may drive out his malice."

shin · « **Reply #29 on:** July 12, 2013, 01:03:34 AM »

Quote from: poche

Everything should be done for love, nothing by force.
St Francis de Sales.

Where in his works his this from poche?