Author Topic: Favorite Quotations from the Saints? (Read 7158 times)

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.