Author Topic: Favorite Quotations from the Saints? (Read 7138 times)

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