Occupation: Saint Birth: 330 Death: January 1, 379
When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bre….
As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the….
The sun penetrates crystal and makes it more dazzling. In the same way, the sanctifying Spirit indwells in souls and makes them more radiant. They be….
The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God..
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor..
It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight..
If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it..
We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to re….
He who plants kindness gathers love..
O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she sho….
The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty ….
They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love..
I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My di….
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gather….
The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else. And no one has taught us ….
There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not st….
As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communica….
Do not say, "this happened by chance, while this came to be of itself." In all that exists there is nothing disorderly, nothing indefinite, nothing w….
Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God..
Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit..
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger..