Author Topic: Favorite Quotations from the Saints? (Read 6781 times)

Neil Obstat · « **Reply #30 on:** July 12, 2013, 01:32:53 AM »

Quote from: Frances

"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.

Today, St. John Vianney, waiting for service at a new car dealer,
and seeing another customer there complaining about his new
car for the tiny imperfections he sees in its paint job, would say:

"It is greatly to be wished that your soul would be as beautiful
as your car."

Or, alternatively, "Would that our concerns for perfection in every
detail could be properly directed at the purity and spotlessness
of our souls instead of merely at our method of transportation."

Miseremini · « **Reply #31 on:** July 12, 2013, 03:11:54 PM »

From St. Augustine

Where there is love, there is no labour

Christ is not valued at all, unless He is valued above all

If you think you have no fault, that is probably the worst one

Miseremini · « **Reply #32 on:** July 12, 2013, 03:14:50 PM »

The most beautiful quote I wish to someday hear

THIS DAY THOU SHALT WITH ME IN PARADISE BE

Marlelar · « **Reply #33 on:** July 12, 2013, 06:44:04 PM »

"These continual reflections upon ourselves and our actions are of no use except to consume time, which would be better employed in doing, than in scrutinizing so carefully what has been done. For this constant watching as to whether we are doing well, often causes things to be done badly. Those souls which make reflections about trifles act like silkworms, which impede and imprison themselves in their own work."

St. Francis de Sales

shin · « **Reply #34 on:** July 12, 2013, 10:46:27 PM »

Quote from: Miseremini

The most beautiful quote I wish to someday hear

THIS DAY THOU SHALT WITH ME IN PARADISE BE

Heaven help us! :)

Quote

"These continual reflections upon ourselves and our actions are of no use except to consume time, which would be better employed in doing, than in scrutinizing so carefully what has been done. For this constant watching as to whether we are doing well, often causes things to be done badly. Those souls which make reflections about trifles act like silkworms, which impede and imprison themselves in their own work."

St. Francis de Sales

Help for OCD? :)

shin · « **Reply #35 on:** July 12, 2013, 10:52:11 PM »

'Do you desire to study to your advantage? Let devotion accompany all your studies and study less to make yourself learned than to become a saint.'

St. Vincent Ferrer

'When you behold a beautiful landscape, say: Heaven is more beautiful than that! Above there are true delights and holy pleasures! Let us live, then, absorbed in the thought and the desire of that immense ocean of felicity which we are to enjoy in heaven.'

St. Paul of the Cross

shin · « **Reply #36 on:** July 19, 2013, 12:56:44 AM »

'We are preparing ourselves for the time, which will come very soon, when we shall find ourselves at the end of our journey and shall be drinking of living water from the fountain I have described. Unless we make a total surrender of our will to the Lord, and put ourselves in His hands so that He may do in all things what is best for us in accordance with His will, He will never allow us to drink of it.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

poche · « **Reply #37 on:** July 19, 2013, 01:17:35 AM »

“It’s for you, Jesus. If you want it, I want it, too.”
Blessed Chiara Badano

poche · « **Reply #38 on:** July 19, 2013, 03:05:02 AM »

Being asked one day why he, being so well educated, sought the instruction and advice of a certain monk who was an utter stranger to all literature, Arsenius replied, "I am not unacquainted with the learning of the Greeks and the Romans; but I have not yet learned the alphabet of the science of the saints, whereof this seemingly ignorant Egyptian is master".

poche · « **Reply #39 on:** July 19, 2013, 03:39:05 AM »

Tertullian recounts an event where a Roman soldier refused to wear the laurel crown, which would have implicitly recognized the divinity of the Roman emperor. When questioned why he refused, he answered that he could not because he was a Christian. Non facio. Christianus sum! I cannot. I am a Christian.

http://catholic.org/hf/faith/story.php?id=51760

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #40 on:** January 20, 2014, 02:21:02 PM »

Quote from: Viva Cristo Rey

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

All the strength of Satan's reign is due to the easygoing weakness of Catholics.
Pope St. Pius X.

shin · « **Reply #41 on:** January 20, 2014, 05:43:25 PM »

'Here is the difference between the joys of the world and the cross of Jesus Christ: after having tasted the first, one is disgusted with them; and on the contrary, the more one partakes of the cross, the greater the thirst for it.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Cantarella · « **Reply #42 on:** January 20, 2014, 06:46:13 PM »

St. Augustine: “If you wish to be a Catholic, do not venture to believe, to say, or to teach that they whom the Lord has predestinated for baptism can be snatched away from his predestination, or die before that has been accomplished in them which the Almighty has predestined.’

Dana · « **Reply #43 on:** January 20, 2014, 07:26:32 PM »

"Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith was simple and easy. But in their day, things they say, will be complex, and the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems. When the world and the Church will be one, then those days are at hand. For Our Divine Master placed a barrier between His things and the things of the world."

St. Anthony of the Desert: on the times of Antichrist. St. Anthony died in the year 356.

Stubborn · « **Reply #44 on:** January 21, 2014, 07:41:14 AM »

He cannot have God for his Father who does not have Holy Mother for his Church.
St. Cyprian